Mandragora caulescens
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Details Top
| Internal ID | UUID64404148ba841967388617 |
| Scientific name | Mandragora caulescens |
| Authority | C.B.Clarke |
| First published in | Fl. Brit. India [J. D. Hooker] 4: 242. 1883 |
Description Top
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Mandragora caulescens, also known as the Himalayan mandrake, is a perennial herbaceous plant in the Solanaceae family. It is native to the Himalayas, Myanmar, and southwest China. Unlike other species of Mandragora, it has a stem and can grow up to 60 cm tall. It has basal leaves and dark purple or yellow flowers that bloom from April to September. The plant produces greenish white to yellow berries with numerous yellow to light brown seeds. M. caulescens is highly toxic due to the presence of tropane alkaloids, but its roots are used in traditional Chinese medicine for their medicinal properties. It is found in open areas at high altitudes and is used as a substitute for ginseng in some regions.
Synonyms Top
| Scientific name | Authority | First published in |
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| Mandragora caulescens subsp. brevicalyx | Grierson & D.G.Long | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 36(1): 144. 1978 |
| Mandragora caulescens subsp. flavida | Grierson & D.G.Long | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 36(1): 143. 1978 |
| Mandragora caulescens subsp. purpurascens | Grierson & D.G.Long | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 36(1): 143. 1978 |
| Mandragora chinghaiensis | K.Z.Kuang & A.M.Lu | Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(1): 159.1978. |
| Mairella yunnanensis | H.Lév. | Cat. Pl. Yun-Nan 199. 1916 |
Common names Top
Add a new one! Suggest a correction!| Language | Common/alternative name |
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| German | chinesische alraune |
| German | tibetische alraune |
| German | himalaya-alraune |
| Chinese | 曼陀茄根 |
| Chinese | 绒仙人球 |
| Chinese | 曼陀茄 |
| Chinese | 茄参 |
| Chinese | 茄蔘 |
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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top
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- Extinct
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Asia-temperate click to expand
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China
- China South-central
- Qinghai
- Tibet
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Indian Subcontinent
- Assam
- East Himalaya
- Nepal
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Indo-China
- Myanmar
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Indian Subcontinent
Links to other databases Top
Suggest others/fix!| Database | ID/link to page |
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| World Flora Online | wfo-0001023493 |
| Tropicos | 29604866 |
| KEW | urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:816722-1 |
| The Plant List | tro-29604866 |
| Open Tree Of Life | 329323 |
| NCBI Taxonomy | 337183 |
| IPNI | 816722-1 |
| iNaturalist | 509746 |
| GBIF | 7299934 |
| Freebase | /m/0131z93z |
| USDA GRIN | 448481 |
| Wikipedia | Mandragora_caulescens |
Genomes (via NCBI) Top
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| Nuclear phylogeny and insights into whole-genome duplications and reproductive development of Solanaceae plants | Huang J, Xu W, Zhai J, Hu Y, Guo J, Zhang C, Zhao Y, Zhang L, Martine C, Ma H, Huang CH | Plant Commun | 25-Mar-2023 |
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| A philatelic history of anesthesiology | Sekhar KC | J Anaesthesiol Clin Pharmacol | 01-Jan-2013 |
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| In public collections | 0 |