Adonis of the Apennine , or Adonis of Siberia , or Apennine apricot [2] , or Siberian apricot [2] ( lat. Adónis apennina ) - a species of perennial herbaceous plants from the genus Adonis of the Ranunculaceae family . Used as a medicinal plant ; It is also grown as an ornamental plant .
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Synonyms
The following names are included in the synonymy of the species [3] :
- Adonanthe apennina ( L. ) sennikov
- Adonanthe sibirica ( Patrin ex DC. ) Spach
- Adonis apennina var. dahurica Ledeb.
- Adonis apennina var. sibirica ( Patrin ex DC. ) Ledeb.
- Adonis apennina subsp. sibirica ( Patrin ex DC. ) Korsh.
- Adonis ircutiana Fisch. ex DC.
- Adonis sibirica Patrin ex Ledeb. (1824) [4]
- Adonis vernalis var. mentzelii DC.
- Adonis vernalis var. sibirica Patrin ex DC.
- Chrysocyathus sibiricus ( Patrin ex DC. ) Holub
Botanical Description
The rhizome is thick, short.
Stems at the beginning of flowering 20-30 cm tall, later up to 60 cm, smooth.
The leaves are large, twice-thrice-peristoreal, oval or triangular in shape. Leaf fractions are lanceolate.
The flowers are large, 4-6 cm across, intensely yellow, the petals are obovate or rounded 20-30 mm long and 10-15 mm wide.
Fruitlets shortly pubescent, about 4.5 mm long and 4 mm wide, with a short bent nose down. It blooms in late May and in June, bears fruit in June - July.
Distribution
It grows in the European part of Russia ( Dvinsko-Pechora , Volga-Kama, Zavolzhsky areas), in Western Siberia (Ob (south), Verkhne-Tobolsky, Irtysh, Altai regions), in Eastern Siberia (Yenisei (extreme south), Leno-Kolyma , Angara-Sayan , Daursky areas ), in Central Asia ( Dzhungaro-Tarbagatai district ). In Yakutia along the Lena , Amga, and Vilyu rivers, the productivity of thickets is 30–45 kg / ha ; in the Tuva Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , 15–114 kg / ha.
The species is included in the red books of the Amur , Vologda , Irkutsk , Kirov , Kurgan and Chita regions, the republics of Buryatia , Komi and Udmurtia .
Medicinal properties
With a lack of raw spring adonis , it is used instead, but has less biological activity [5] . For medicinal purposes, the aerial part of the plant is used. The plant contains alkaloids (0.05%). In the aerial part, cardenolides ( strophanthin , convalotoxin , cymarin , K-strophanthin beta , adonitoxin ), vitamin C , flavonoids ( orientin , adonivernite ) were found.
In Altai, an infusion of herbs is used for dizziness . The infusion of the herb has a pronounced sedative effect .
Tibetan medicine uses an infusion of herbs for bronchitis and female diseases.
In Russia, the infusion of herbs is used for heart , nervous and gastric diseases . Depending on the place of growth, the cardiotonic activity of the raw material varies and amounts to 6.8-23.9 KED in Bashkiria, 21.4 KED in the Sverdlovsk region , and 1.2 KED in the Irkutsk region .
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 Russian name of the taxon - according to the following edition:
- Schroeter A.I. , Panasyuk V.A. Dictionary of Plant Names = Dictionary of Plant Names / Int. union biol. Sciences, Nat. Biologists of Russia, Vseros. instit lek. and aromatic. plants Ros. agricultural farm. academies; Ed. prof. V.A. Bykova. - Koenigstein: Koeltz Scientific Books, 1999 .-- S. 26. - 1033 p. - ISBN 3-87429-398-X .
- ↑ Adonis apennina . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment August 16, 2016.
- ↑ On the International Plant Names Index (IPNI) website, this name is considered a synonym ( basionym ) for the correct name Chrysocyathus sibiricus ( Ledeb. ) J.Holub ( 1998 )
- ↑ Atlas of medicinal plants of the USSR / Ch. ed. Acad. N.V. Tsitsin. - M .: Medgiz, 1962 .-- S. 6 .-- 702 p.
Literature
- Lavrenova, G.V. , Lavrenov, V.K. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants. - Donetsk: Donetsk region, 1997.
Links
- Siberian Adonis in the Encyclopedia of Ornamental Garden Plants
- Adonis sibirica : information on the taxon in the Plantarium project (identifier of plants and an illustrated atlas of species). (Retrieved January 2, 2014)