Amentotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilg.

Amentotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilg., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 54(1): 41 (1916).

Amentotaxus argotaenia
Amentotaxus argotaenia
Amentotaxus argotaenia
Amentotaxus argotaenia

Amentotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilg.; Photo Hoang Thanh Son

Vietnamese name: 

Dẻ tùng sọc trắng.

Chinese name: 

穗花杉 sui hua shan

English name: 

Chinese flowering yew

Latin name: 

Amentotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilg.

Family: 

Taxaceae

Synonym name:

Amentotaxus argotaenia var. argotaenia

Amentotaxus argotaenia var. cathayensis (H.L.Li) Keng f.

Amentotaxus cathayensis H.L.Li

Cephalotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilg.

Nageia argotaenia (Hance) Kuntze

Nageia insignis (Hemsl.) Kuntze

Podocarpus argotaenia Hance

Podocarpus insignis Hemsl.

Description: 

A shrub 2-7 m. tall, with spreading branches. Branchlets light olive-green. Leaves 3-11 cm. long by 6-11 mm. wide, leathery, straight, spreading slightly forwards, with 2 white stomatal bands below nearly as broad as the marginal bands, apex bluntly acute or obtuse. Male strobili in groups of 1-3 at tips of branchlets, 5-6 cm. long, with 2-5 pollen sacs. Female cone ovoid or somewhat globose, light olive-green at first, 2-2.5 cm. long by 1.3 cm. wide. Seed to 1.3 cm. long 

Flower and fruid season: 

Pollination Apr, seed maturity Oct.

Distribution: 

This species is distributed in China (Fujian, S Gansu, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, W Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, NW Jiangxi, C and SE Sichuan, Taiwan, SE Xizang, S Zhejiang) and North Vietnam. In VietNam, found in Pu Luong Peak and Xuan Son National Park.

Ecological: 

Limestone mountains, forests, ravines, shady and damp stream banks; at an elevation of 300-1100 m.

Chemical:

From leaves of Amentotaxus argotaenia: A-homo-5-cholest-6-en-3-One, cyclobalanone, nonacosan-10-ol, r-sitosterol and β-sitosterol

Uses: 

Treatment of bronchitis, cough, fracture bundles (bark, leaves).

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- efloras.org

- ipni.org

- conifers.org

- Ma Zhong-Wu,He Guan-Fu,Yin Wan-Fen. Study on Chemical Components in Leaves of Amentotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilger Native to China[J]. , 1986, 24(6): 443-446.

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