中文名（Chinese Name）：草珊瑚
学名（Scientific Name）：Sarcandra glabra (Thunb.) Nakai
英文名（English Common Name）：
别名（Chinese Common Name）：九节茶、九节兰
异名（Synonym）：Chloranthus esquirolii H. Lév.  Chloranthus denticulatus Cordem.  Chloranthus glaber (Thunb.) Makino  Sarcandra chloranthoides Gardner  Ardisia glabra (Thunb.) A. DC.  Bladhia glabra Thunb.
科属（Family & Genus）：金粟兰科（Chloranthaceae）草珊瑚属
形态特征（Description）：常绿半灌木，高50-120厘米；茎与枝均有膨大的节。叶革质，椭圆形、卵形至卵状披针形，长6-17厘米，宽2-6厘米，顶端渐尖，基部尖或楔形，边缘具粗锐锯齿，齿尖有一腺体，两面均无毛；叶柄长0.5-1.5厘米，基部合生成鞘状；托叶钻形。穗状花序顶生，通常分枝，多少成圆锥花序状，连总花梗长1.5-4厘米；苞片三角形；花黄绿色；雄蕊1枚,肉质，棒状至圆柱状，花药2室，生于药隔上部之两侧，侧向或有时内向; 子房球形或卵形，无花柱，柱头近头状。核果球形，直径3-4毫米，熟时亮红色。花期6月，果期8-10月。
分布（Distribution）：产我国中南部，生于海拔420-1500米的山坡、沟谷林下荫湿处。朝鲜、日本及东南亚也有。
用途（Use）：全株供药用，能清热解毒、祛风活血、消肿止痛、抗菌消炎。
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 4 Page 132
Sarcandra glabra (Thunberg) Nakai, Fl. Sylv. Kor. 18: 17. 1930.
草珊瑚 cao shan hu| Chloranthaceae  | Sarcandra
Bladhia glabra Thunberg, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 2: 331. 1794; Ardisia glabra (Thunberg) de Candolle; Chloranthus glaber (Thunberg) Makino.
Subshrubs, evergreen, 50-150 cm tall. Stems cylindric, erect, glabrous, nodes swollen. Stipules subulate; petioles 0.5-2 cm; leaf blade elliptic or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, or broadly elliptic to oblong, 6-20 × 2-8 cm, leathery or papery, glandular mucronate on marginal teeth, glabrous, base acute, cuneate, or broadly cuneate, margin sharply coarsely-serrate or dully serrate except basally, apex acute to acuminate; lateral veins 5-7, slightly prominent on both surfaces. Inflorescences terminal, usually branched, ± in spikes, 1.5-4 cm with peduncles; bracts triangular or ovate. Flowers yellowish green. Stamen 1, fleshy, baculate to terete or ovoid; anther 2-loculed, thecae lateral or sometimes introrse, on both sides of apical part of connective or nearly as long as connective. Ovary globose or ovoid; style absent; stigma subcapitate or minutely spotted. Drupes green when young, shiny red or yellowish red at maturity, globose (3-4 mm in diam.) or ovoid (ca. 4 mm). 2n = 30*.
Forests, thickets, valleys, ravines, slopes, roadsides, trailsides, grasslands, swamps, streamsides, sandy soil; near sea level to 2000 m. Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Cambodia, India, Japan (including Ryukyu Islands), Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, N Thailand, Vietnam]
Used medicinally and for tea.
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