Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook.f.

Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook.f., Gen. Pl. [Bentham & Hooker f.] 2(1): 303 (1873).

Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook.f.; Photos Hoang Thanh Son

Vietnamese name: 

Bạch nhung bờ, Bạch nhung quế, cây rỉ sắt, Sơn thu, Rau khúc dại 

Chinese name: 

珠光香青 zhu guang xiang qing

English name:

Latin name: 

Anaphalis margaritacea (L.) Benth. & Hook.f.

Synonym name: 

Anaphalis angustifolia Rydb.

Anaphalis cinnamomea (DC.) C.B.Clarke

Anaphalis cinnamomea var. cinnamomea

Anaphalis japonica Maxim.

Anaphalis lanata (A.Nelson) Rydb.

Anaphalis margaritacea var. angustior (Miq.) Nakai

Anaphalis margaritacea var. intercedens H.Hara

Anaphalis margaritacea f. margaritacea

Anaphalis margaritacea var. occidentalis Greene

Anaphalis margaritacea var. revoluta Suksd.

Anaphalis margaritacea var. subalpina (A.Gray) A.Gray

Anaphalis margaritaceae subsp. yedoensis (Franch. & Sav.) Kitam.

Anaphalis occidentalis (Greene) A.Heller

Anaphalis sierrae A.Heller

Anaphalis subalpina (A.Gray) Rydb.

Anaphalis timmua D.Don

Anaphalis timmua (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Hand.-Mazz.

Anaphalis yedoensis Maxim.

Antennaria cinnamomea DC.

Antennaria cinnamomea var. cinnamomea

Antennaria margaritacea (L.) R.Br. ex DC.

Antennaria margaritacea (L.) Sweet

Antennaria margaritacea var. subalpina A.Gray

Antennaria plantaginea Sweet

Antennaria timmua Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don

Chamaezelum margaritaceum Link

Gnaphalium americanum Greene 

Gnaphalium boreale Salisb. 

Gnaphalium hypophaeum Spreng. ex DC.

Gnaphalium margaritaceum L.

Gnaphalium margaritaceum var. margaritaceum

Gnaphalium timmua Buch.-Ham. ex Spreng.

Gnaphalium wightianum Thwaites

Helichrysum margaritaceum (L.) Moench

Family: 

Asteraceae 

Description: 

Herbs, perennial. Rhizome repent, woody, with short brown squamate runners. Stems solitary or a few caespitose, erect or ascending, 30-60(-100) cm, usually thickish, unbranched, rarely branching on broken or normal stems, ash-gray cottony tomentose, base woody. Lower leaves withered by anthesis, apex obtuse; middle leaves expanding, linear or linear-lanceolate, 5-10 cm × 3-12 mm, rarely wider, base attenuate or sharply narrowed, somewhat amplexicaul, margin flat, apex acuminate with small tip; upper leaves gradually smaller with long tip; all leaves slightly leathery, abaxially densely ash-gray to reddish brown lanuginous, adaxially arachnoid or later glabrous, 1-veined, or 3- or 5-veined. Capitula numerous, arranged in compound corymbiform (or corymbiform) synflorescences; peduncle 4-17 mm. Involucre broadly campanulate or semispherical, 5-8 × 8-13 mm; phyllaries 5-7-seriate, somewhat expanding, upper parts white; outer phyllaries up to 1/3 of involucre, ovate, cottony tomentose; middle ones ovate to oblong, ca. 5 × 2.5 mm, up to 3 mm wide in male plants, apex rounded or acuminate; innermost ones linear-lanceolate, ca. 0.5 mm wide, with a claw up to 3/4 of full length. Receptacle alveolate. Predominantly female capitula with many florets, with 3-20 central male florets and many rows of marginal female florets. Predominantly male capitula with many florets, with all central male florets or few rows of marginal female florets. Corolla 3-5 mm. Pappus slightly exserted from corolla, filiform in female florets, incrassate at tip of apex, serrulate in male florets. Achene oblong, ca. 0.7 mm, with glandular dots. 2n = 28*, 42, 56*

Flower and Fruit season: 

July-November.

Distribution: 

This species is distributed in China, Bhutan, India, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia (Far East), N Thailand, Vietnam; North America; widely introduced in Europe.

Ecological: 

Conifer and Betula forests, dry soils, subalpine or low mountain grasslands or shrublands, rocky valleys and roadsides, slopes, banks; at an elevation of 300-3500 m. In VietNam, found in Lào Cai (Sa Pa), Lâm Đồng (Đà Lạt, Lạc Dương), Kon Tum (Đắc Lây).

Use: 

Treatment of blood vomiting, toothache, limb pain, swelling of the breast (using the whole tree)

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- efloras.org

- ipni.org