4. Beesia I. B. Balfour & W. W. Smith, Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh. 9: 63. 1915.
铁破锣属 tie po luo shu
Li Liangqian; Michio Tamura
Herbs perennial. Rhizome robust, creeping or ascending. Leaves 2--4, basal, long petiolate, simple, cordate or cordate-triangular, dentate. Scape simple, with membranous sheath at base. Cyme compound, with 1--3 sessile fascicled flowers at several nodes. Bracts and bracteoles subulate or lanceolate. Flower actinomorphic, opening flat. Sepals 5, petaloid, white, elliptic. Petals absent. Stamens numerous; filaments subfiliform; anthers subglobose. Follicle solitary, long, narrow, flat, with transverse veins. Seeds several, ovoid-globose, rugose.
Two species: China, Myanmar; two species (one endemic) in China.
The rhizomes are used medicinally to treat rheumatic pain, influenza, and swelling.
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Leaves reniform, cordate, or orbicular-ovate, margin with 40--50 teeth on each side, teeth relatively small, 2--4 mm wide at base |
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1 B. calthifolia |
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Leaves cordate-triangular, margin with 7--16 teeth on each side, teeth relatively large, 3--8 mm wide at base |
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2 B. deltophylla |
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