Flowers Of Pinellia Ternata Chinese Drama

Descriptions

According to CATE Araceae

Pinellia (Araceae pinellia ternata) is a member of the Aroid family. Originating from China and Japan, it is a small plant that is popular for ornamental use and known in Asia as 'green dragon.' Pinellia is a small plant, growing only to a height of 6–12 in (15–30 cm) high. 1st Chinese Herbs 5018 View Ridge Drive Olympia, WA 98501 (888) 842-2049 (888) 842-2049.

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

General Description

Tuber globose, 1–2cm in diam. Leaves 2–5; petiole 15–20cm, base sheathing; bulbils present in sheath, at proximal or middle part of petiole, and at base of leaf blade; leaf blade 3foliolate, sometimes pedate with 5 leaflets; leaflets greenish abaxially, green adaxially, oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate; anterior leaflet 3–10 × 1–3cm; lateral leaflets (3–)4–7.5 × 1.8–2.3cm, with 7–9(or 10) primary lateral veins per side, forming a collective vein along margin. Inflorescence including peduncle longer than petioles, 25–35cm; peduncle 15–25cm. Spathe greenish or whitish green, rarely purplish, slightly constricted, 6–7cm; tube narrowly cylindric, 1.5–2cm; limb green and usually violet at margin, oblong, 4–5 × ca. 1.5cm, apex obtuse or acute. Spadix 9–10cm; female zone ca. 2cm, adnate to spathe; female flowers densely arranged; pistil 2.1–2.2mm; ovary ovoid, ca. 1.8 × 1–1.1mm; style distinct, attenuate; stigma very small, ca. 0.2mm in diam., not broader than style; sterile zone between female and male flowers ca. 3mm; male zone 5–7mm; thecae elongate, ca. 1.2mm, opening by a slit; appendix erect or sigmoid, green to violet, 6–7(–8)cm. Berries yellowish green to whitish, ovoid, with persistent stigma and style, 1-seeded. 2n = 28, 54, 72, 104, 115, 116, 128.

Habitat

Grasslands, secondary forests, wastelands, cultivated lands.

Phenology

Fl. May–Jul, fr. Jul–Sep.

Vernacular

ban xia

According to CATE Araceae under the synonym Pinellia koreana

CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011. araceae.e-monocot.org

Herba perennis usque ad 40 cm aIta; tuber globosum 1.0-2. cm diametro. Folia 2, ovata. 3-foliolata, iterum scissa in extrinsecus 2-foliolata. 10-12 cm longa, 7-11 cm lata: petioIis 13-20 cm longis. Pedunculi 23-30 cm longi: spatha erecta. Numerus chromosomatum. 2N = 104 (8x).

Perennial herb to 40 cm tall. Tuber globose, 1.0-2.0 cm diam. Leaves 2. Petiole greenish.1 3-20 cm long. base sheathing. Bulbils present in sheath at lower part of petiole, 7-8 mm diam. Blade ovate in outline. green, trifoliolate, lateral leaflets bilobed when mature. green, 10-12 cm long, 7-11 cm wide. Peduncle green, solitary longer than the petiole. 23-30 cm. Spathe green outside. typically light purplish green within, tube narrowly cylindric, 6-7 cm long. Spadix with pistillate portion basal, 1.5-1.8 cm long. Staminate portion above, 0.9-1.2 cm long. and appendix violet to green (Fig. 1). Berries ovoid. greenish white. stigma persistent. Somatic chromosome number 2n = 104.

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Uses

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Distribution

Native to:

China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan

Introduced into:

Austria, California, District of Columbia, Germany, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia

Synonyms

Flowers Of Pinellia Ternata Chinese Drama

Has 20 Synonyms

Other Data

Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Makino appears in other Kew resources:

Herbarium Catalogue (3 records)

Pinellia Ternata Eradicating

Bibliography

First published in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 15: 135 (1901)

Accepted by

• Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542. New York Botanical Garden.
• Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
• Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
• Nowotny, G. & Nauwerck, B.R. (2011). Neue Vorkommen von Pinellia ternata (Thunberg) Breitenbach und andere Neophyten im Grenzgebiet von Oberösterreich und Salzburg Stapfia 95: 76-84.
• Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Zhu, G., Li, H. & Li, R. (2007). A synopsis and a new species of the E. Asian genus Pinellia (Araceae) Willdenowia 37: 503-522.
• Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542. New York Botanical Garden.
• Nowotny, G. & Nauwerck, B.R. (2011). Neue Vorkommen von Pinellia ternata (Thunberg) Breitenbach und andere Neophyten im Grenzgebiet von Oberösterreich und Salzburg Stapfia 95: 76-84.
• Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Flowers Of Pinellia Ternata Chinese Drama Sub

Sources

CATE Araceae
Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Science Photographs
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Has 20 Synonyms

Other Data

Pinellia ternata (Thunb.) Makino appears in other Kew resources:

Herbarium Catalogue (3 records)

Pinellia Ternata Eradicating

Bibliography

First published in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 15: 135 (1901)

Accepted by

• Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542. New York Botanical Garden.
• Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
• Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
• Nowotny, G. & Nauwerck, B.R. (2011). Neue Vorkommen von Pinellia ternata (Thunberg) Breitenbach und andere Neophyten im Grenzgebiet von Oberösterreich und Salzburg Stapfia 95: 76-84.
• Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
• Zhu, G., Li, H. & Li, R. (2007). A synopsis and a new species of the E. Asian genus Pinellia (Araceae) Willdenowia 37: 503-522.
• Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1-560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

• Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542. New York Botanical Garden.
• Nowotny, G. & Nauwerck, B.R. (2011). Neue Vorkommen von Pinellia ternata (Thunberg) Breitenbach und andere Neophyten im Grenzgebiet von Oberösterreich und Salzburg Stapfia 95: 76-84.
• Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2010). Flora of China 23: 1-515. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Flowers Of Pinellia Ternata Chinese Drama Sub

Sources

CATE Araceae
Haigh, A., Clark, B., Reynolds, L., Mayo, S.J., Croat, T.B., Lay, L., Boyce, P.C., Mora, M., Bogner, J., Sellaro, M., Wong, S.Y., Kostelac, C., Grayum, M.H., Keating, R.C., Ruckert, G., Naylor, M.F. and Hay, A., CATE Araceae, 17 Dec 2011.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.

Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

Kew Science Photographs
Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

At first glance, the casual observer would think a pinellia is from the same genus as arisaemas. They have the same jack-in-the-pulpit structure to the inflorescence, so why not? Here are a few hints (from a non-botanist):

1. Pinellias never have more than one seed per fruit.
2. The Pinellia seedhead flops down on the ground to disperse the seeds, which are still green when ripe.
3. The Pinellia flowering stem has no leaves. The leaves arise directly from the tuber. (Yes, some arisaemas do this, too.)
4. The Pinellia spadix is fused to the back of the spathe for some distance.
5. Pinellias bloom several times in each growing season.
6. All Pinellias are monoecious (ie, male and female flowers on the same inflorescence).
7. Pinellias don't get as much respect as Arisaemas, and tend to be cheaper.

Pinellia Ternata Root

There are four species in cultivation and in the trade in the US and Europe:

Please do yourself a favor and DO NOT grow P. ternata in the ground. If you'd like to grow it, keep it in a well contained pot. Sorry to say, but P. ternata is close to being the purple loosestrife of the aroid world.

So what are the differences between the inflorescences on these species? Funny you should ask. I just happen to have some pictures. Check them out here.

Eric Walton was kind enough to send me a copy of the Chinese species list from the Proceedings of the VI International Aroid Conference held in Kunming, Yunnan, in the summer of 1995. There are no less than seven Pinellia:

P. cordata
P. integrifolia
P. pedatisecta
P. peltata
P. polyphylla
P. ternata
P. yaoluopingensis

Eric also sent me an abstract of a paper on Pinellia presented at the conference by Li Li of the Beijing Vegetable Research Centre. (do they eat these things???). Mr. Li says there are about 10 species in the world, primarily China, Japan, and Korea. In China there are 8 species and one form. In addition to the names above, he also lists P. zhiguiensis and P. ternata f. angustata, plus P. tenore as a new species. He further proposes that P. yaoloupingensis, zhiguiensis, and the ternata forms are polyploid. P. peltata and integrifolia are described as being relatively primitive, whatever that means (scholarly help is welcome). He does not mention P. polyphylla; if I include it I come up with 9 species instead of 8.