Curculigo capitulata

 Curculigo capitulata (Lour.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 703 (1891).

Curculigo capitulata (Lour.) Kuntze, Photo by Hoang  Thanh Son

its native range is Tropical & Subtropical Asia to NE. Queensland.

Latin name:

Curculigo capitulata (Lour.) Kuntze

Family:

Hypoxidaceae R.Br.

Synonyms:

Leucojum capitulatum Lour.

Tupistra esquirolii H.Lév. & Vaniot

Curculigo glabra Merr.

Curculigo recurvata W.T.Aiton

Curculigo strobiliformis D.Fang & D.H.Qin

Curculigo sumatrana Roxb.

Molineria capitulata (Lour.) Herb.

Molineria hortensis Britton

Molineria plicata Colla

Molineria recurvata (W.T.Aiton) Herb.

Molineria sulcata Kurz

Molineria sumatrana (Roxb.) Herb.

Veratrum mairei H.Lév.

Vietnamese name:

Sâm cau lá lớn, Cồ nốc hoa đầu. 

Chinese name:

大叶仙茅 - da ye xian mao

Describtion:

Herbs to 1 m tall, stout. Rhizomes tuberous, thick, with creeping, slender stolons. Leaves often 4-7; petiole 30-80 cm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate to suboblong, 40-90 × 5--14 cm, plicate, papery, sometimes pubescent, margin entire, apex acuminate. Flowering stems (10--)15--30 cm, brown villous. Racemes nodding, capitate to subovoid, 2.5-5 cm, densely many flowered; bracts ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm, hairy. Pedicel ca. 7 mm. Perianth yellow; segments ovate-oblong, ca. 8 × 3.5-4 mm, apex obtuse, outer segments adaxially hairy, inner ones adaxially hairy on midvein or at base of midvein. Stamens 5--6 mm; filament less than 1 mm; anther linear, ca. 5 mm. Ovary subglobose to oblong, hairy. Style longer than stamens, slender; stigma subcapitate. Berry white, subglobose, 4-5 mm in diam., beakless. Seeds black with irregular stripes.

Fruit and Flowering:

Fl. May-Jun, fr. Aug-Sep.

Distribution: 

Assam, Bangladesh, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Thailand, Tibet, Vietnam (Sơn La, Vĩnh Phú, Lạng Sơn, Ninh Thuận, Lâm Đồng, Đồng Nai. Cây mọc tự nhiên dưới tán rừng thường xanh.).

Ecology:

Forests, shady and moist places; (300--)800-2200 m.

Chemical and Pharmacology:

Capitulo-side B, together with eight known compounds, curcapicycloside, capituloside, breviscaside B, crassifogenin C, breviscapin A, methyl-4-O-coumaroylquinate, orcinol glucoside, and 2,6-dimethoxy-benzioc acid

Cultivation:

Uses:

Diuretic, cure nephritis, kidney stones, rheumatism, anti-inflammatory, calm, regulate menstruation, blood stasis, high blood pressure (root).

Type Information:

Clarke, C.B. [12389], India K000099956 Unknown type material

India K000099957 Unknown type material

References:

https://www.ipni.org/n/64141-1

http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:64141-1

http://tracuuduoclieu.vn/curculigo-capitulata-lour-kuntze.html

http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200028039

Di, Lei, Wang, Kai Jin, Zhu, Cui Cui, & Li, Ning (2010). Chemical Constituents from Rhizomes of Curculigo capitulata. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society, 31(10), 2999-3002.