Taxon: Lobelia chinensis Lour.

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Common names:

• ban bian lian   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• aze-mushiro   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• mizo-kakushi   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

Economic importance:

• Medicines: folklore   (fide Atlas Chin Drugs; Chin Herb Med; Chin Med Herb HK; Med Pl China)
  

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Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Anhui, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu, Ryukyu Islands, Shikoku; Korea; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh; India - Assam, Bihar, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, West Bengal; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java; Malaysia

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1960–. Flore du Cambodge du Laos et du Viet-Nam.
• Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Haridasan, V. K. & P. K. Mukerjee. 1988. Lobeliaceae. In: Botanical Survey of India, Fascicles of flora of India. 19:45.
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Lammers, T. G. 2007. World checklist and bibliography of Campanulaceae.
• Missouri Botanical Garden. Flora of China Checklist (on-line resource).
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Press, J. R. et al. 2000–. Annotated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal (on-line resource).
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Lobelia chinensis.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Lobelia chinensis.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Lobelia chinensis.

Check other web resources for Lobelia chinensis Lour.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
• Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

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• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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