中文名（Chinese Name）：小驳骨
学名（Scientific Name）：Justicia gendarussa L. f.
英文名（English Common Name）：
别名（Chinese Common Name）：接骨草
异名（Synonym）： Gendarussa vulgaris Nees；Ecbolium gendarussa (Linn. f.) Kuntze 
科属（Family & Genus）：爵床科（Acanthaceae）驳骨草属
形态特征（Description）：多年生草本或亚灌木、直立、无毛，高约1米；茎圆柱形，节膨大，枝多数，对生，嫩枝常深紫色。叶纸质，狭披针形至披针状线形，长5-10厘米，宽5-15毫米左右，顶端渐尖，基部渐狭，全缘；中脉粗大，在上面平坦，在背面呈半柱状凸起，和侧脉每边6-8条，均呈深紫色或有时侧脉半透明；叶柄长在10毫米以内，或上部的叶有时近无柄。穗状花序顶生，下部间断，上部密花；苞片对生，在花序下部的1或2对呈叶状，比萼长，上部的小，披针状线形，比尊短，内含花2至数朵；萼裂片披针状线形，长约4毫米，无毛或被疏柔毛；花冠白色或粉红色，长1.2-1.4厘米，上唇长圆状卵形，下唇浅3裂。蒴果长1.2厘米，无毛。花期春季。
分布（Distribution）：产台湾、福建、广东、香港、海南、广西、云南。见于村旁或路边的灌丛中，有时栽培。分布于印度、斯里兰卡、中南半岛至马来半岛。
用途（Use）：据《广州植物志》载：“味辛，性温，治风邪，理跌打，调酒服；梅县群众则摘取其茎叶煎水，趁热洗涤筋骨患处，闻有舒筋活络之效。”
引自中国植物志英文版
FOC Vol. 19 
Justicia gendarussa N. L. Burman, Fl. Indica. 10. 1768.
小驳骨 xiao bo gu
Gendarussa vulgaris Nees. | Acanthaceae  | Justicia
Subshrubs 0.7-1.5 cm tall, much branched. Stems subterete, swollen at nodes, glabrous. Petiole 3-10 mm; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, 6-10 × 1-1.5 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 5-8 on each side of midvein, base cuneate to attenuate, margin subsinuate, apex acute to shortly acuminate. Spikes terminal or axillary, 3-12 cm, interrupted, usually in a leafy panicle; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm; bracts triangular, 2-6 × 1-2.5 mm, basal ones longer than calyx then gradually smaller with apicalmost ones shorter than calyx, margin ciliate, apex acute; bracteoles elliptic to linear-lanceolate, ca. 3 × 1 mm, margin ciliate, apex acute. Calyx ca. 5 mm, 5-lobed; lobes linear-lanceolate, 3-4 × ca. 0.5 mm, subequal, apex acuminate. Corolla creamy white, 1.2-1.5 cm; tube basally cylindric and ca. 2 mm wide for 8-9 mm; lower lip violet dotted basally, cuneate-obovate, 6-10 mm broad, 3-lobed, lobes oblanceolate and 3-5 × ca. 3.5 mm; upper lip violet blotched, triangular, ca. 7 × 3.5 mm, 2-cleft. Stamens exserted; filaments 3-6 mm, glabrous; anther thecae oblong, ca. 1.2 mm, superposed, lower one spurred at base, upper one muticous. Ovary glabrous; style ca. 1 cm, glabrous; stigma capitate, shortly 2-lobed. Capsule clavate, ca. 1.2 cm. Fl. Jan-Apr. 2n = 28, 30.
Roadsides, thickets. Naturalized or cultivated in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, and Yunnan [native to or naturalized in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam; widely cultivated].
Justicia gendarussa is native to S and SE Asia but is widely cultivated and naturalized. Its actual native distribution is not certain because it is often not clear whether particular collections are native.
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