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Ethnobotany of China

KINGDOM:Plantae || PHYLUM:Tracheophyta || CLASS:Magnoliopsida || ORDER:Caryophyllales || FAMILY:落葵科 Basellaceae || GENUS: 落葵属 Basella

落葵 Basella alba L.

Accepted name Basella alba L. (Basellaceae) WCVP · exact match
Catalogue of Life China 落葵
Flora treatments

《中国植物志》|| 落葵科 BASELLACEAE ||落葵属 Basella L. ||落葵 Basella alba L.

1. 落葵(名医别录) 蔠葵、蘩露(尔雅),藤菜(本草纲目),臙脂豆、木耳菜(植物名实图考),潺菜(广州),豆腐菜(云南),紫葵、胭脂菜、蓠芭菜(福建)、染绛子 图版9: 1-6
Basella alba L., Sp. Pl. 272. 1753; Graham, Cat. Bomb. 170. 1839; Steenis, Fl. Males. ser. 1, 5 (3): 300. fig. 1. 1957. ——B. rubra L., Sp. Pl. 272. 1753; Merr. in Lingnan Sci. Journ. 5: 74. 1927; 广州植物志149.图60. 1956; 海南植物志1: 411.图221. 1964; 中国高等植物图鉴1: 618.图1236. 1972; 四川植物志3: 180.图版58. 1985.
一年生缠绕草本。茎长可达数米,无毛,肉质,绿色或略带紫红色。叶片卵形或近圆形,长3-9厘米,宽2-8厘米,顶端渐尖,基部微心形或圆形,下延成柄,全缘,背面叶脉微凸起;叶柄长1-3厘米,上有凹槽。穗状花序腋生,长3-15 (-20) 厘米;苞片极小,早落;小苞片2,萼状,长圆形,宿存;花被片淡红色或淡紫色,卵状长圆形,全缘,顶端钝圆,内摺,下部白色,连合成筒;雄蕊着生花被筒口,花丝短,基部扁宽,白色,花药淡黄色;柱头椭圆形。果实球形,直径5-6毫米,红色至深红色或黑色,多汁液,外包宿存小苞片及花被。花期5-9月,果期7-10月。
原产亚洲热带地区。我国南北各地多有种植,南方有逸为野生的。
叶含有多种维生素和钙、铁,栽培作蔬菜,也可观赏。全草供药用,为缓泻剂,有滑肠、散热、利大小便的功效;花汁有清血解毒作用,能解痘毒,外敷治痈毒及乳头破裂。果汁可作无害的食品着色剂。
B. rubra L. 和B. alba L. 没有多大区别,应该合并,而最早将二者合并的是 Graham (1839),他选用了 B. alba L.。


Source 中国植物物种信息数据库


Plant use records
Chinese name Vernacular name Plant Ethnic group Use Source
藤三七 藤及珠芽 藤三七 Basella rubra L. Yi medicine Ethnomedicinal 《哀牢》
落葵 落葵 落葵 Basella alba L. Medicinal 中华本草
落葵 落葵 落葵 Basella alba L. Dai Ethnomedicinal 中华本草
落葵子 落葵子 落葵子 Basella alba L. Medicinal 中华本草
落葵花 落葵花 落葵花 Basella alba L. Medicinal 中华本草


Historical formulas containing this species
Use in historical formulas by period (6 formulas in total)
Use in historical formulas by periodPre-Qin: 0Pre-QinHan: 0HanWei–Jin & N–S: 0Wei–Jin& N–SSui–Tang & Five Dynasties: 11Sui–Tang& Five DynastiesSong: 22SongJin–Yuan: 22Jin–YuanMing: 11MingQing: 0Qing




Wild economic plants of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau (field survey)
Plant name Local name Family Life form Part used Folk use Voucher Locality Ethnic group Region

Research papers
Title Authors Journal Date
Mineral content of culinary and medicinal plants cultivated by Hmong refugees living in Sacramento, California Corlett, JL; Clegg, MS; Keen, CL; Grivetti, LE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCES AND NUTRITION MAR 2002
Evaluation of the cytotoxicity, mutagenicity and antimutagenicity of emerging edible plants Yen, GC; Chen, HY; Peng, HH FOOD AND CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGY NOV 2001
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