龙脷叶Sauropus spatulifolius

中文名(Chinese Name):龙脷叶
学名(Scientific Name):Sauropus spatulifolius Beille
英文名(English Common Name):
别名(Chinese Common Name):龙利叶、龙舌叶
异名(Synonym):Sauropus changianus S. Y. Hu  Sauropus rostratus Miq.
科属(Family & Genus):大戟科(Euphorbiaceae)守宫木属
形态特征(Description):常绿小灌木,高10-40厘米;茎粗糙;枝条圆柱状,直径2-5毫米,蜿蜒状弯曲,多皱纹;幼时被腺状短柔毛,老渐无毛,节间短,长2-20毫米。叶通常聚生于小枝上部,常向下弯垂,叶片鲜时近肉质,干后近革质或厚纸质,匙形、倒卵状长圆形或卵形,有时长圆形,长4.5-16.5厘米,宽2.5-6.3厘米,顶端浑圆或钝,有小凸尖,稀凹缺,基部楔形或钝,稀圆形,上面鲜时深绿色,叶脉处呈灰白色,干时黄白色,通常无毛,有时下面基部有腺状短柔毛,后变无毛;中脉和侧脉在鲜叶时扁平,干后中脉两面均凸起,侧脉每边6-9条,下面稍凸起;叶柄长2-5毫米,初时被腺状短柔毛,老渐无毛;托叶三角状耳形,着生于叶柄基部两侧,长4-8毫米,基部宽3-4毫米,宿存。花红色或紫红色,雌雄同枝,2-5朵簇生于落叶的枝条中部或下部,或茎花,有时组成短聚伞花序,花序长达15毫米;花序梗短而粗壮,着生有许多披针形的苞片;苞片长约2毫米;雄花:花梗丝状,长3-5毫米;萼片6,2轮,近等大,倒卵形,长2-3毫米,宽约1.5毫米;花盘腺体6,与萼片对生;雄蕊3,花丝合生呈短柱状;雌花:花梗长约2-3毫米;萼片与雄花的相同;无花盘;子房近圆球状,直径约1毫米,3室,花柱3,顶端2裂。花期2-10月。
分布(Distribution):原产于越南北部,我国南方引种栽培。
用途(Use):叶可药用,可治咳嗽、喉痛、急性支气管炎等。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 11 Page 203, 204
Sauropus spatulifolius Beille in Lecomte, Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine. 5: 652. 1927.
龙脷叶 long li ye | Euphorbiaceae  | Sauropus
Sauropus changianus S. Y. Hu.
Evergreen shrublets 10-40 cm tall, monoecious; stem scabrous; branches terete, 2-5 mm in diam., scorpioid-curved, rugose. Leaves usually clustered apically, often recurved or pendulous; stipules 4-8 × 3-4 mm wide at base, glandular-pubescent when young, persistent; petiole 2-5 mm, glandular-pubescent when young, glabrescent; leaf blade spatulate, obovate-oblong, or ovate, sometimes oblong, 4.5-16.5 × 2.5-6.3 cm, ± fleshy when fresh, thinly leathery or thickly papery when dry, dark green and nerves gray-white adaxially when live, yellow-white when dry, usually glabrous, sometimes abaxially glandular-pubescent at base, glabrescent, base cuneate or obtuse, rarely rounded, apex rounded or obtuse, rarely retuse; venation pinnate, midrib flat when live, raised on both surfaces when dry, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, flat on both surfaces. Inflorescence cauliflorous, 2-5-flowered clusters or leafless branches at middle or lower part, sometimes in short cymes to 15 mm; peduncles short and robust, with many bracts; bracts lanceolate, ca. 2 mm. Male flowers: pedicels filamentous, 3-5 mm; calyx red or purple; sepals 6, biseriate, subequal, obovate, 2-3 × ca. 1.5 mm; disk segments 6, opposite sepals; stamens 3; filaments connate into a short cylinder. Female flowers: pedicels 2-3 mm; sepals as in male; disk absent; ovary subglobose, ca. 1 mm in diam., 3-locular; styles 3, bifid at apex. Fruit not seen. Fl. Feb-Oct.
Cultivated for medicine. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi [native to N Vietnam; cultivated in Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand].
The leaves are used as medicine for coughs, sore throat, and acute bronchitis.
龙脷叶Sauropus spatulifolius

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