China Naming Network - Solar terms knowledge - What kind of plant (medicine) is this? Our local name is "Golden Dragon with Eight Claws" or "Coptis chinensis with Chicken Claws", but it is different from the Golden Dragon with Eight Claws in Chinese medicine books.

What kind of plant (medicine) is this? Our local name is "Golden Dragon with Eight Claws" or "Coptis chinensis with Chicken Claws", but it is different from the Golden Dragon with Eight Claws in Chinese medicine books.

The picture shows Swertia bimaculata of Gentianaceae.

Annual herb, 0.3- 1.4(2) m high. The roots are thin and brown. The stem is erect, round and hollow, with a diameter of 2-6 mm at the base and branches above the middle. The basal leaves withered at flowering stage; Cauline leaves are sessile or short-stalked, elliptic to ovate-lanceolate, 3.5-9 cm long and 1-4 cm wide, with long tapering apex, blunt base, 3-5 veins, arc-shaped, obviously protruding from the back, and leaflike uppermost leaf bud. Large conical cymes are loose, spreading, up to 50 cm long, with many flowers; Pedicel thick, erect or oblique, unequal in length, 6-40 mm long; 5 flowers, 2.5 cm in diameter; Calyx green, equal to corolla length 1/4- 1/2, lobes narrowly oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, 3-6 mm long, apex acuminate or acute, base narrowed, edge with narrow white film, often rolled out, and back with 3-5 thin and inconspicuous veins; Corolla yellow, with many purple spots on the upper part, lobes oval or oblong, length 1- 1.5 cm, tapering or acute at the top, narrow at the base, and two large yellow-green and semicircular glandular points in the middle; Filaments linear, 5-6.5 mm long, anthers oblong, about 2.5 mm long; Ovary sessile, lanceolate, ca. 8 mm long, short style, small stigma, capitate, 2-lobed. Capsule sessile, narrowly ovoid, 2.3 cm long; The seeds are brown and round, with tumor-like protrusions on the surface. Chromosome 2n =18,24. The flowering and fruiting period is June-165438+1October.