月光花Calonyction aculeatum (Linn.) House
月光花Calonyction aculeatum (Linn.) House
1. 月光花（通称）嫦娥奔月（云南）
Calonyction aculeatum (Linn.) House in Bull. Torr. Club 31: 590. 1904; Merr. et Chun in Sunyatsenia 2: 313. 1935; Masamune, Fl. Kainant. 271. 1943; 吴征镒、李锡文, 云南热带亚热带植物区系研究报告1: 114. 1965; 中国高等植物图鉴3: 536. 图5025. 1974; 海南植物志3: 491. 图875. 1974.——Convolvulus qculeaturn Linn. Sp. Pl. 155. 1753.——Ipomoea alba Linn. l. c. 161. 1753; v. Ooststr. in Blumea 3: 547. 1940, et in Fl. Males. ser. 1, 4(4): 480. f. 53. 1953.——I. bona-nox Linn. l. c. ed. 2. 228. 1762; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 238. 1861; Forb. et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26: 158. 1861. ——Calonyction speciosum Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phus. Geneve 6: 441. t. l. f. 4. 1833, excl. var. b.; id. in DC. Prodr. 9: 345. 1845, cum var. p. p.; Gagn. et Courch. in Lecte. Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 4: 285. f. 29. 1915. ——C. bona-nox (Linn. ) Boj. Hort. Maurit. 227. 1837; Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 1028. 1897.——C. album (Linn. ) House l. c. 591. 1904; Merr. in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 6: 330. 1928; Masamune, Fl. Kainant. 272. 1943.
《Flora of China》 Vol. 16 (1995)
Ipomoea alba Linnaeus
月光花 yue guang hua
Calonyction aculeatum (Linnaeus) House; C. aculeatum var. lobatum (H. Hallier) C. Y. Wu; C. album (Linnaeus) House; C. bona-nox (Linnaeus) Bojer; C. bona-nox var. lobata H. Hallier; C. speciosum Choisy; Convolvulus aculeatus Linnaeus; Ipomoea aculeata (Linnaeus) Kuntze; I. aculeata var. bona-nox (Linnaeus) Kuntze; I. bona-nox Linnaeus.
Herbs annual or perennial, twining, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent. Stems to 10 m, terete, smooth or with soft prickles, sap milky. Petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade ovate to ± circular in outline, 10-20 X 5-16 cm, base cordate, margin entire, angular to 3-lobed, apex acuminate, mucronulate. Inflorescences helicoid cymes, rarely dichasial, 1- to several flowered; peduncle stout, terete, 1-24 cm; bracts early deciduous, small. Pedicel 7-15 cm, clavate distally, enlarged in fruit. Flowers nocturnal, fragrant. Sepals elliptic to ovate, ± leathery, glabrous; outer 3 sepals 5-12 mm, apex with a stout spreading awn 4-9 mm; inner 2 sepals 7-15 mm, mucronate. Corolla white, with greenish bands, salverform; tube 7-12 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam.; limb 7-12 cm in diam., shallowly 5-undulate. Stamens exserted; filaments inserted in apical 1/2 of corolla tube, glabrous; anthers sagittate basally. Pistil exserted; ovary narrowly conical, glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 2.5-3 cm, apiculate. Seeds white, brown, or black, ca. 10 7-8 mm, glabrous. 2n = 28*, 30*, 38*.
Wet forests, watercourses, disturbed areas, cultivated and also naturalized sporadically. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jaingxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [naturalized in Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand; Pacific Islands, native in North and South America]
The whole plant is used in treating snakebite.
别名：天茄儿;tropical white morning-glory;
科名：旋花科 Convolvulaceae
属名：月光花属 Calonyction
1. 月光花（通称）嫦娥奔月（云南）
Calonyction aculeatum (Linn.) House in Bull. Torr. Club 31: 590. 1904; Merr. et Chun in Sunyatsenia 2: 313. 1935; Masamune, Fl. Kainant. 271. 1943; 吴征镒、李锡文, 云南热带亚热带植物区系研究报告1: 114. 1965; 中国高等植物图鉴3: 536. 图5025. 1974; 海南植物志3: 491. 图875. 1974.——Convolvulus qculeaturn Linn. Sp. Pl. 155. 1753.——Ipomoea alba Linn. l. c. 161. 1753; v. Ooststr. in Blumea 3: 547. 1940, et in Fl. Males. ser. 1, 4(4): 480. f. 53. 1953.——I. bona-nox Linn. l. c. ed. 2. 228. 1762; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 238. 1861; Forb. et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26: 158. 1861. ——Calonyction speciosum Choisy in Mem. Soc. Phus. Geneve 6: 441. t. l. f. 4. 1833, excl. var. b.; id. in DC. Prodr. 9: 345. 1845, cum var. p. p.; Gagn. et Courch. in Lecte. Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 4: 285. f. 29. 1915. ——C. bona-nox (Linn. ) Boj. Hort. Maurit. 227. 1837; Hall. f. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 5: 1028. 1897.——C. album (Linn. ) House l. c. 591. 1904; Merr. in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 6: 330. 1928; Masamune, Fl. Kainant. 272. 1943.
《Flora of China》 Vol. 16 (1995)
Ipomoea alba Linnaeus
月光花 yue guang hua
Calonyction aculeatum (Linnaeus) House; C. aculeatum var. lobatum (H. Hallier) C. Y. Wu; C. album (Linnaeus) House; C. bona-nox (Linnaeus) Bojer; C. bona-nox var. lobata H. Hallier; C. speciosum Choisy; Convolvulus aculeatus Linnaeus; Ipomoea aculeata (Linnaeus) Kuntze; I. aculeata var. bona-nox (Linnaeus) Kuntze; I. bona-nox Linnaeus.
Herbs annual or perennial, twining, usually glabrous, rarely puberulent. Stems to 10 m, terete, smooth or with soft prickles, sap milky. Petiole 5-20 cm; leaf blade ovate to ± circular in outline, 10-20 X 5-16 cm, base cordate, margin entire, angular to 3-lobed, apex acuminate, mucronulate. Inflorescences helicoid cymes, rarely dichasial, 1- to several flowered; peduncle stout, terete, 1-24 cm; bracts early deciduous, small. Pedicel 7-15 cm, clavate distally, enlarged in fruit. Flowers nocturnal, fragrant. Sepals elliptic to ovate, ± leathery, glabrous; outer 3 sepals 5-12 mm, apex with a stout spreading awn 4-9 mm; inner 2 sepals 7-15 mm, mucronate. Corolla white, with greenish bands, salverform; tube 7-12 cm, ca. 5 mm in diam.; limb 7-12 cm in diam., shallowly 5-undulate. Stamens exserted; filaments inserted in apical 1/2 of corolla tube, glabrous; anthers sagittate basally. Pistil exserted; ovary narrowly conical, glabrous. Stigma 2-lobed. Capsule ovoid, 2.5-3 cm, apiculate. Seeds white, brown, or black, ca. 10 7-8 mm, glabrous. 2n = 28*, 30*, 38*.
Wet forests, watercourses, disturbed areas, cultivated and also naturalized sporadically. Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangsu, Jaingxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [naturalized in Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand; Pacific Islands, native in North and South America]
The whole plant is used in treating snakebite.