红花茜草Rubia haematantha Airy-Shaw
红花茜草Rubia haematantha Airy-Shaw
8．红花茜草（新拟）
Rubia haematantha Airy-Shaw in Kew Bull. 1931: 450. 1931; Hand. -Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7 (4): 1032. 1936.
多年生草本，全株无毛。根多数，稍木质化，红色。茎常直立或攀援状，丛生，上部常分枝，枝相互交结，纤细，有四直棱，棱上有微小倒生皮刺或有时近平滑，长20-30厘米，节间长1-4厘米。叶6片轮生，无柄或近无柄，极狭的线形，长2-3厘米，极少达5厘米，宽约0.5-1毫米，短尖，上面平坦而光滑，下面中脉凸起，常生微小刺，边缘增厚，反卷，亦有微小皮刺。花序腋生，疏散少花，由1-3个小聚伞花序组成；苞片丝状；花梗丝状，长达5毫米；萼管卵圆形，小，花冠辐状，暗红色（或白色？），直径约3-4毫米，裂片5，长圆形，宽1毫米，有3脉，顶部骤然变狭成长达1毫米、尾状尖头；雄蕊5，伸展，极短，花药椭圆形，与花丝近等长；花柱2，分离，极短，棒状。浆果近球形，径3-4毫米，黑色。花期夏季至秋初，果期秋末冬初。
我国特有，产四川（木里和稻城）、云南西北部（丽江、中甸等地）。模式标本产四川木里东南部。
《Flora of China》 Vol. 19 (2011)
Rubia haematantha Airy Shaw Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew. 1931: 450. 1931.
红花茜草 hong hua qian cao
Herbs, perennial, erect to somewhat climbing, with woody rootstock; stems 0.5 m or more, clustered, quadrangular, angles ± retrorsely aculeolate. Leaves in whorls of up to 6-8(-10), narrowly linear, 20-50 × 0.5-1 mm, base acute, margins revolute and antrorsely aculeolate, otherwise glabrous and smooth, single vein forming a thick midrib ca. 1/2 of leaf breadth, apex acute, with hyaline point. Inflorescence thyrsoid, with lax, few-flowered axillary and terminal cymes; bracts filiform; pedicels ca. 5 mm. Ovary ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous. Corolla dark red (perhaps sometimes ?white), rotate, 3-4 mm in diam., glabrous; lobes triangular, 3-veined, abruptly caudate with acumen ca. 1 mm. Mericarp berry black, 3-4 mm in diam. Fl. summer-early autumn, fr. late autumn-early winter.
● Dry and rocky meadows; 3000-3800 m. Sichuan, NW Yunnan.
Together with Rubia angustissima Wallich ex G. Don and R. charifolia Wallich ex G. Don from the Himalaya, both with greenish-yellowish flowers, the dark-red flowering R. haematantha forms an aberrant, closely related species assembly, provisionally called R. angustissima group. It occurs from the W Himalaya (Kashmir) to Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, and SW China. The group shares retrorsely aculeate stems, linear to filiform leaves in whorls of up to 8(-10), and caudate corolla lobes. Species delimitation within this group is still provisional. Whereas Deb and Malick (Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10(1): 5. 1968) unite R. angustissima and R. charifolia ("R. charaefolia"), the two taxa are maintained by Long (Fl. Bhutan 2(2): 823-825. 1999). The reliability of the flower color as differential character of R. haematantha also needs further study. If only one species is accepted, its name would have to be R. angustissima.Together with Rubia angustissima Wallich ex G. Don and R. charifolia Wallich ex G. Don from the Himalaya, both with greenish-yellowish flowers, the dark-red flowering R. haematantha forms an aberrant, closely related species assembly, provisionally called R. angustissima group. It occurs from the W Himalaya (Kashmir) to Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, and SW China. The group shares retrorsely aculeate stems, linear to filiform leaves in whorls of up to 8(-10), and caudate corolla lobes. Species delimitation within this group is still provisional. Whereas Deb and Malick (Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10(1): 5. 1968) unite R. angustissima and R. charifolia ("R. charaefolia"), the two taxa are maintained by Long (Fl. Bhutan 2(2): 823-825. 1999). The reliability of the flower color as differential character of R. haematantha also needs further study. If only one species is accepted, its name would have to be R. angustissima.
别名：血花茜草;白花茜草;
科名：茜草科 Rubiaceae
属名：茜草属 Rubia
8．红花茜草（新拟）
Rubia haematantha Airy-Shaw in Kew Bull. 1931: 450. 1931; Hand. -Mazz. Symb. Sin. 7 (4): 1032. 1936.
多年生草本，全株无毛。根多数，稍木质化，红色。茎常直立或攀援状，丛生，上部常分枝，枝相互交结，纤细，有四直棱，棱上有微小倒生皮刺或有时近平滑，长20-30厘米，节间长1-4厘米。叶6片轮生，无柄或近无柄，极狭的线形，长2-3厘米，极少达5厘米，宽约0.5-1毫米，短尖，上面平坦而光滑，下面中脉凸起，常生微小刺，边缘增厚，反卷，亦有微小皮刺。花序腋生，疏散少花，由1-3个小聚伞花序组成；苞片丝状；花梗丝状，长达5毫米；萼管卵圆形，小，花冠辐状，暗红色（或白色？），直径约3-4毫米，裂片5，长圆形，宽1毫米，有3脉，顶部骤然变狭成长达1毫米、尾状尖头；雄蕊5，伸展，极短，花药椭圆形，与花丝近等长；花柱2，分离，极短，棒状。浆果近球形，径3-4毫米，黑色。花期夏季至秋初，果期秋末冬初。
我国特有，产四川（木里和稻城）、云南西北部（丽江、中甸等地）。模式标本产四川木里东南部。
《Flora of China》 Vol. 19 (2011)
Rubia haematantha Airy Shaw Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew. 1931: 450. 1931.
红花茜草 hong hua qian cao
Herbs, perennial, erect to somewhat climbing, with woody rootstock; stems 0.5 m or more, clustered, quadrangular, angles ± retrorsely aculeolate. Leaves in whorls of up to 6-8(-10), narrowly linear, 20-50 × 0.5-1 mm, base acute, margins revolute and antrorsely aculeolate, otherwise glabrous and smooth, single vein forming a thick midrib ca. 1/2 of leaf breadth, apex acute, with hyaline point. Inflorescence thyrsoid, with lax, few-flowered axillary and terminal cymes; bracts filiform; pedicels ca. 5 mm. Ovary ca. 0.5 mm, glabrous. Corolla dark red (perhaps sometimes ?white), rotate, 3-4 mm in diam., glabrous; lobes triangular, 3-veined, abruptly caudate with acumen ca. 1 mm. Mericarp berry black, 3-4 mm in diam. Fl. summer-early autumn, fr. late autumn-early winter.
● Dry and rocky meadows; 3000-3800 m. Sichuan, NW Yunnan.
Together with Rubia angustissima Wallich ex G. Don and R. charifolia Wallich ex G. Don from the Himalaya, both with greenish-yellowish flowers, the dark-red flowering R. haematantha forms an aberrant, closely related species assembly, provisionally called R. angustissima group. It occurs from the W Himalaya (Kashmir) to Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, and SW China. The group shares retrorsely aculeate stems, linear to filiform leaves in whorls of up to 8(-10), and caudate corolla lobes. Species delimitation within this group is still provisional. Whereas Deb and Malick (Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10(1): 5. 1968) unite R. angustissima and R. charifolia ("R. charaefolia"), the two taxa are maintained by Long (Fl. Bhutan 2(2): 823-825. 1999). The reliability of the flower color as differential character of R. haematantha also needs further study. If only one species is accepted, its name would have to be R. angustissima.Together with Rubia angustissima Wallich ex G. Don and R. charifolia Wallich ex G. Don from the Himalaya, both with greenish-yellowish flowers, the dark-red flowering R. haematantha forms an aberrant, closely related species assembly, provisionally called R. angustissima group. It occurs from the W Himalaya (Kashmir) to Nepal, Myanmar, Bhutan, and SW China. The group shares retrorsely aculeate stems, linear to filiform leaves in whorls of up to 8(-10), and caudate corolla lobes. Species delimitation within this group is still provisional. Whereas Deb and Malick (Bull. Bot. Surv. India 10(1): 5. 1968) unite R. angustissima and R. charifolia ("R. charaefolia"), the two taxa are maintained by Long (Fl. Bhutan 2(2): 823-825. 1999). The reliability of the flower color as differential character of R. haematantha also needs further study. If only one species is accepted, its name would have to be R. angustissima.