Atractylodes lancea
StarAtractylodes lancea
Synonyms: Atractylis ovata var. simplicifolia, Atractylis ovata, Giraldia stapfii, Atractylis lancea, Atractylis chinensis var. loeseneri, Atractylis ovata f. ternata, Acarna chinensis, Atractylis chinensis, Atractylodes ovata, Atractylis chinensis f. simplicifolia, Atractylis japonica, Atractylodes chinensis var. liaotungensis, Atractylis ovata f. lyratifolia, Atractylodes chinensis f. quinqueloba, Atractylis ovata f. pinnatifolia, Atractylodes japponica var. coriacea, Atractylodes chinensis f. simplicifolia, Atractylis ovata f. simplicifolia, Atractylis erosodentata, Atractylis ovata f. amurensis, Atractylodes erosodentata, Atractylis chinensis var. quiqueloba, Atractylis lyrata, Atractylodes chinensis, Atractylodes japonica, Atractylodes lyrata, Atractylodes lancea subsp. luotianensis, Atractylis pinnatifolia, Atractylis chinensis f. erosodentata, Atractylis ovata var. ternata, Atractylodes lancea var. chinensis, Atractylodes lyrata var. ternata, Acarna ovata, Atractylis chinensis var. liatungensis, Atractylodes lancea var. simplicifolia, Atractylodes chinensis var. simplicifolia, Atractylis lyrata f. ternata, Atractylis separata, Atractylis chinensis f. stapfii, Acarna lancea, Atractylis chinensis var. liaotungensis, Atractylis chinensis var. simplicifolia
Western Herbalism Properties
Botanical Description
Atractylodes lancea is a perennial herb in the Asteraceae family native to eastern China, Korea, and Japan. The plant grows 30 to 80 centimetres tall from a stout, knotty, aromatic rhizome with a characteristic warm spicy odour. The erect, slender, often purplish-tinged stems bear alternate, sessile or short-petioled leaves that are lanceolate to elliptic; lower leaves are usually three- to five-lobed and stalked, while upper leaves are simple and unlobed, all with spinulose-serrate margins. From late summer into autumn, solitary discoid heads are produced at the stem tips, surrounded by an involucre of several rows of imbricate bracts subtended by a distinctive whorl of pinnatifid, comb-like leafy bracts. Florets are tubular and white to pale purplish-pink. Achenes bear a pinkish-brown plumose pappus. Atractylodes lancea grows in dry, open hillsides and rocky woodlands, and is widely cultivated for its medicinal rhizome.
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