Codonopsis is a genus of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. As currently recognized, Codonopsis includes two other groups sometimes separated as distinct genera, i.e. Campanumoea and Leptocodon.[1][2][3][4] The enlarged genus Codonopsis is widespread across eastern, southern, central, and southeastern Asia, including China, Japan, the Russian Far East, Kazakhstan, the Indian Subcontinent, Iran, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.
| Codonopsis | |
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| Codonopsis pilosula | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Asterales |
| Family: | Campanulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Campanuloideae |
| Genus: | Codonopsis Wall. (1824) |
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Uses edit
Medicinal uses edit
Codonopsis pilosula (Chinese: 党参; pinyin: dǎngshēn) is an important medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine.[5]
Food uses edit
Codonopsis lanceolata (Korean: deodeok) is used as a food in Korean cuisine.
Species edit
Species currently (July 2014) accepted by Kew's World Checklist.[1] Species with no range given are endemic to China
- Codonopsis affinis – China, Himalayas, Myanmar (Chinese: 大叶党参)
- Codonopsis alpina – (高山党参)
- Codonopsis argentea – (银背叶党参)
- Codonopsis benthamii – China, Himalayas, Myanmar
- Codonopsis bhutanica – Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet
- Codonopsis bragaensis – Nepal
- Codonopsis bulleyana – (管钟党参)
- Codonopsis canescens – (灰毛党参)
- Codonopsis cardiophylla – (光叶党参)
- Codonopsis chimiliensis – Yunnan, Myanmar (滇湎党参)
- Codonopsis chlorocodon – (绿钟党参)
- Codonopsis clematidea – Central Asia, Tibet, Xinjiang, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, western Himalayas (新疆党参)
- Codonopsis convolvulacea – Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar (鸡蛋参)
- Codonopsis cordifolioidea – (心叶党参)
- Codonopsis deltoidea – (三角叶党参)
- Codonopsis dicentrifolia – Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam (珠峰党参)
- Codonopsis efilamentosa – Yunnan, Myanmar
- Codonopsis farreri – Yunnan, Myanmar – (秃叶党参)
- Codonopsis foetens – China, eastern Himalayas (臭党参)
- Codonopsis forrestii – China, Myanmar
- Codonopsis gombalana – (贡山党参)
- Codonopsis gracilis – Yunnan, Myanmar, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
- Codonopsis henryi – (川鄂党参)
- Codonopsis hirsuta
- Codonopsis hongii
- Codonopsis inflata Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam
- Codonopsis javanica – widespread across China, Japan, Himalayas, Indochina, Java, Sumatra
- Codonopsis kawakamii – Taiwan (台湾党参)
- Codonopsis lanceolata – China, Korea, Japan, Russian Far East (羊乳)
- Codonopsis levicalyx – (光萼党参)
- Codonopsis limprichtii
- Codonopsis macrophylla – Tibet
- Codonopsis mairei
- Codonopsis meleagris – (珠鸡斑党参)
- Codonopsis micrantha – (小花党参)
- Codonopsis minima – Korea
- Codonopsis nepalensis – Nepal
- Codonopsis ovata Pakistan, Kashmir
- Codonopsis pianmaensis
- Codonopsis pilosula – China, Mongolia, Korea, Primorye (党参)
- Codonopsis purpurea – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) (紫花党参)
- Codonopsis rosulata – (莲座状党参)
- Codonopsis rotundifolia – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan)
- Codonopsis subglobosa – (球花党参)
- Codonopsis subscaposa – (抽葶党参)
- Codonopsis subsimplex – Tibet, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) (藏南党参)
- Codonopsis thalictrifolia – Tibet, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) – (唐松草党参)
- Codonopsis tsinglingensis – (秦岭党参)
- Codonopsis tubulosa – (管花党参)
- Codonopsis ussuriensis – China, Japan, Korea, Primorye (雀斑党参)
- Codonopsis vinciflora
- Codonopsis viridiflora – (绿花党参)
- Codonopsis viridis – Tibet, Himalayas (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan)
References edit
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ K.E. Morris and T.G. Lammers (1997). "Circumscription of Codonopsis and the allied genera Campanumoea and Leptocodon (Campanulaceae: Campanuloideae). I. Palynological data". Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin. 36: 277–284.
- ^ Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. Continental Publishing, Deurne.
- ^ Flora of China v 19 p 505, 桔梗科 jie geng ke, Campanulaceae
- ^ Li, C. Y., et al. (2009). Quality assessment of Radix Codonopsis by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of Chromatography A 1216(11) 2124-29.
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