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Persicaria perfiolata

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

(Linnaeus) H. Gross

Common Names

• Gang ban gui (Pinyin)
• Ishimi-kawa (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• Anhui
• Fujian
• Gansu
• Guangdong
• Guangxi
• Guizhou
• Hainan
• Hebei
• Heilongjiang
• Henan
• Hubei
• Hunan
• Jiangsu
• Jiangxi
• Jilin
• Liaoning
• Nei Mongol
• Shaanxi
• Shandong
• Shanxi
• Sichuan
• Taiwan
• Yunnan
• Zhejiang - China
• India
• Java - Indonesia
• Hokkaido
• Honshu
• Kyushu - Japan
• Korea
• Malaysia
• Nepal
• New Guinea - Papua New Guinea
• Philippines
• Amur
• Khabarovsk
• Primorye
• Sakhalin - Russia
• Thailand
• Turkey
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Roadsides
• disturbed areas
• thickets
• riverside
• secondary forest
• streamside

Flowering Times

• Jun-Aug (China)
• Jul-Oct (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Jul-Oct (China)

Climbing or trailing glabrous herbaceous annual or perennial vine, red-brown angular stem to 3m+ with recurved prickles. Leaves to 110mm x 80mm, prickly on nerves beneath & with scabrous margins. Terminal or axillary pseudo-spikes to 30mm long with leafy bracts to 30mm long, to 4 flowers, white or pinkish to 3.5mm long, persistent perianth segments becoming fleshy & blue in fruit. Fruit a fleshy black or blue achene to 3mm x 6mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• FOC
• Mansfeld
• The Plant List 2
• F Indochine
• FOJ
• FONG
• Gleason & Moldenke
• BTH