中文名（Chinese Name）：银线草
学名（Scientific Name）：Chloranthus japonicus Sieb.
英文名（English Common Name）：
别名（Chinese Common Name）：灯笼花、白毛七
异名（Synonym）：Chloranthus mandshuricus Rupr.  Tricercandra japonica (Siebold) Nakai  Chloranthus macranthera Schult.f. ex Miq.  Tricercandra quadrifolia A. Gray 
科属（Family & Genus）：金粟兰科（Chloranthaceae）金粟兰属
形态特征（Description）：多年生草本，高20-49厘米；根状茎多节，横走，分枝，生多数细长须根，有香气；茎直立，单生或数个丛生，不分枝，下部节上对生2片鳞状叶。叶对生，通常4片生于茎顶，成假轮生，纸质，宽椭圆形或倒卵形，长8-14厘米，宽5-8厘米，顶端急尖，基部宽楔形，边缘有齿牙状锐锯齿，齿尖有一腺体，近基部或1/4以下全缘，腹面有光泽，两面无毛，侧脉6-8对，网脉明显；叶柄长8-18毫米；鳞状叶膜质，三角形或宽卵形，长4-5毫米。穗状花序单一，顶生，连总花梗长3-5厘米；苞片三角形或近半圆形；花白色；雄蕊3枚，药隔基部连合，着生于子房上部外侧；中央药隔无花药，两侧药隔各有1个1室的花药；药隔延伸成线形，长约5毫米，水平伸展或向上弯，药室在药隔的基部；子房卵形，无花柱，柱头截平。核果近球形或倒卵形，长2.5-3毫米，具长1-1.5毫米的柄，绿色。花期4-5月，果期5-7月。
分布（Distribution）：产吉林、辽宁、河北、山西、山东、陕西及甘肃，生于海拔500-2300米的山坡或山谷杂木林下荫湿处或沟边草丛中。朝鲜及日本也有。
用途（Use）：全株供药用，能祛湿散寒、活血止痛、散瘀解毒。主治风寒咳嗽、风湿痛、闭经；外用治跌打损伤。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 4 Page 135
Chloranthus japonicus Siebold, Nov. Actorum Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol. Nat. Cur. 14: 681. 1829.
银线草 yin xian cao | Chloranthaceae  | Chloranthus
Chloranthus mandshuricus Ruprecht; Tricercandra japonica (Siebold) Nakai; T. quadrifolia A. Gray.
Herbs perennial, 20-49 cm high. Rhizomes many noded, procumbent, branched, with many slender, long, fibrous roots, aromatic. Stems erect, 1 or several in a fascicle, not branched, basal nodes with 1 pair of scalelike leaves. Scalelike leaves opposite, triangular or ovate, 4-5 mm, membranous. Leaves opposite, usually 4 clustered on stem apex and false-whorled; petiole 0.8-1.8 cm; leaf blade broadly elliptic or obovate, 8-14 × 5-8 cm, papery, glandular mucronate, basal 1/4 entire, shiny adaxially, glabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin sharply serrate, apex acute; lateral veins 6-8 pairs; reticulate veins conspicuous. Spike solitary, terminal, 3-5 cm with peduncle; bracts triangular or nearly semiorbicular. Flowers white. Stamens 3; connectives elongated, linear, ca. 5 mm, horizontally spreading or curved upward, connate at base, on outside of apical part of ovary; central connective without anther; lateral connectives with a 1-loculed anther each; thecae at base of connectives. Ovary ovoid; style absent; stigma truncate. Drupes green, subglobose or obovoid, 2.5-3 mm; stalk 1-1.5 mm. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Jul. 2n = 30.
Forests, shaded, wet places, streamsides; 100-2300 m. Gansu, Hebei, Jilin, Liaoning, ?Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East)]
Used for medicinal and aromatic purposes.（责任编辑：徐晔春）