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Codonopsis

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Codonopsis
Codonopsis pilosula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Campanulaceae
Subfamily: Campanuloideae
Genus: Codonopsis
Wall. (1824)
Synonyms[1]
  • Campanumoea Blume (1825)
  • Glosocomia D.Don (1825)
  • Glossocomia Rchb. (1828), orth. var.
  • Leptocodon (Hook.f.) Lem. (1856)

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.

Uses

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Medicinal uses

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Codonopsis pilosula (Chinese: ; pinyin: dǎngshēn) is an important medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine.[5]

Food uses

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Deodeok muchim, a Korean salad made from C. lanceolata

Codonopsis lanceolata (Korean: deodeok) is used as a food in Korean cuisine.

Species

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49 species are accepted.[6]

Formerly placed here

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  • Himalacodon dicentrifolius (C.B.Clarke) D.Y.Hong & Qiang Wang (as Codonopsis dicentrifolia (C.B.Clarke) W.W.Sm.) – (珠峰党参)
  • Pankycodon purpureus (Wall.) D.Y.Hong & X.T.Ma (as Codonopsis purpurea Wall.) – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas (India, Nepal, Bhutan) (紫花党参)
  • Pseudocodon convolvulaceus (Kurz) D.Y.Hong & H.Sun (as Codonopsis convolvulacea Kurz) – Tibet, Yunnan, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar (鸡蛋参)
    • Pseudocodon convolvulaceus subsp. forrestii (Diels) D.Y.Hong (as Codonopsis forrestii Diels) – China, Myanmar
  • Pseudocodon rosulatus (W.W.Sm.) D.Y.Hong (as Codonopsis rosulata W.W.Sm.) – (莲座状党参)

References

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  1. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. Continental Publishing, Deurne.
  4. ^ Flora of China v 19 p 505, 桔梗科 jie geng ke, Campanulaceae
  5. ^ Li, C. Y., et al. (2009). Quality assessment of Radix Codonopsis by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance. Journal of Chromatography A 1216(11) 2124-29.
  6. ^ Codonopsis Wall. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 August 2024.
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