Cynoglossum amabile Stapf & J.R. Drumm.

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General Description:

Herbs perennial 15-60 cm tall. Stems single or several and cespitose, densely spreading pubescent. Basal leaves long petiolate, gray-green, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5-20 cm, densely pubescent; stem leaves sessile, gray-green, oblong to lanceolate, 2-7 cm; lateral veins conspicuous. Inflorescences paniculate, ebracteate. Pedicel 2-3 mm, slightly elongated in fruit. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm, densely pilose outside; lobes ovate to oblong, apex acute. Corolla usually blue, rarely white, base 5-6 mm wide; throat appendages trapeziform, ca. 1 mm; limb 8-10 mm wide; lobes orbicular, ca. 2.5 mm; veins distinctly reticulate. Anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm. Style linear-terete. Nutlets ovoid, 3-4 mm; adaxially slightly concave, with dense glochids; base of marginal glochids confluent; attachment scar above middle abaxi-ally, triangular.

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Cynoglossum amabile:

Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia,[1] which is also called Chinese hound's tongue,[2] or Chinese forget-me-not . This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens [3]

Toxicity[edit source | edit]

Cynoglossum amabile contains tumorigenic pyrrolizidine alkaloids.[4]

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  1. ^ Cynoglossum amabile at Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN)
  2. ^ Cynoglossum amabile at USDA PLANTS Database
  3. ^ Cynoglossum amabile at NC State University
  4. ^ Fu, P.P., Yang, Y.C., Xia, Q., Chou, M.C., Cui, Y.Y., Lin G., "Pyrrolizidine alkaloids-tumorigenic components in Chinese herbal medicines and dietary supplements", Journal of Food and Drug Analysis, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2002, pp. 198-211 [1]
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National Distribution:
United States

Origin: Exotic

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

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Distribution:

Gansu, Guizhou, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan]

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Distribution:

Cynoglossum amabile is occurring in S Gansu, W Guizhou, W Sichuan, SE and SW Xizang, Yunnan of China, Bhutan.

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Chile Central

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Distribution:

E. Himalaya (?Nepal, Bhutan) E. Tibet, W. China.

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Morphology:

Cynoglossum amabile is here defined to nutlets slightly concave abaxially, with dense glochids.

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Description:

Herbs perennial 15-60 cm tall. Stems single or several and cespitose, densely spreading pubescent. Basal leaves long petiolate, gray-green, oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5-20 cm, densely pubescent; stem leaves sessile, gray-green, oblong to lanceolate, 2-7 cm; lateral veins conspicuous. Inflorescences paniculate, ebracteate. Pedicel 2-3 mm, slightly elongated in fruit. Calyx 2.5-3.5 mm, densely pilose outside; lobes ovate to oblong, apex acute. Corolla usually blue, rarely white, base 5-6 mm wide; throat appendages trapeziform, ca. 1 mm; limb 8-10 mm wide; lobes orbicular, ca. 2.5 mm; veins distinctly reticulate. Anthers oblong, ca. 1 mm. Style linear-terete. Nutlets ovoid, 3-4 mm; adaxially slightly concave, with dense glochids; base of marginal glochids confluent, ± forming a wing; attachment scar above middle abaxi-ally, triangular. Fl. and fr. May-Sep. 2n = 24.

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Diagnostic Description:

Cynoglossum amabile var. amabile is close relative of Cynoglossum amabile var. pauciglochidiatum, but differs from the latter in its nutlets slightly concave abaxially, with dense glochids (nutlets keeled along center line abaxially, with glochids usually only on keel).

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