Asarum maximum

Also known as Wild ginger

species of plant

In the Vinony graph

Vinony catalogs Asarum maximum in its Vulnerable Species collection (16,386 entries).

Vinony's link graph records 3 inbound references to Asarum maximum, and connects out to China, plant and Wikidata.

Vinony files it under Asarum, Flora of China and IUCN Red List vulnerable species.

Vinony links it to 13 Wikipedia language editions.

Species

Vulnerable

SPECIES

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassMagnoliopsida
OrderPiperales
FamilyAristolochiaceae

Native toChina South-Central

Observations recorded121

Herbs. Rhizomes horizontal, 2-3 mm in diam., internodes less than 1 cm. Leaves solitary; petiole 10-23 cm, glabrous; leaf blade adaxially dull green, rarely with white blotches, narrowly to broadly ovate, or nearly hastate, 6-13 × 7-15 cm, abaxial surface glabrescent, adaxial surface pubescent along veins and margin, base cordate, lateral lobes 3-7 × 3.5-6 cm, apex acute; cataphylls ovate, 1-1.8 × 0.8-1 cm. Peduncle ascending to recurved, 1-5 cm. Calyx dark purple, campanulate-rotate, 3-4 × 4-6 cm; sepals connate beyond attachment to ovary, abaxially glabrous; tube campanulate, ca. 2.5 × 1.5-2 cm, middle portion abruptly swollen forming a robust girdle-like ring near middle abaxially lacking ridges, slightly constricted at throat, adaxially longitudinally ribbed, orifice ring absent or corrugate and not contiguous; lobes broadly ovate, 2-4 × 2-3 cm, basal 1/2 with transversely papillate-corrugate rows, base with white semicircular pulvinate area. Stamens 12; filaments much shorter than anthers; connectives slightly extended beyond anthers, obtuse. Ovary half-inferior. Styles free, apex 2-forked; stigmas lateral. Fl. Apr-May.

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