Codonopsis

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

{{Automatic taxobox

|image = Codonopsis pilosula flowers.jpg

|image_caption = Codonopsis pilosula

|taxon = Codonopsis

|authority = Wall. (1824)

|synonyms_ref =

|synonyms =

  • 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.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=367767 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]{{cite journal|author=K.E. Morris and T.G. Lammers|year=1997|title=Circumscription of Codonopsis and the allied genera Campanumoea and Leptocodon (Campanulaceae: Campanuloideae). I. Palynological data|journal=Bot. Bull. Acad. Sin.|volume=36|pages=277–284|url=http://ejournal.sinica.edu.tw/bbas/content/1997/4/bot384-10.html}}Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. Continental Publishing, Deurne.[http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=10152 Flora of China v 19 p 505, 桔梗科 jie geng ke, Campanulaceae] 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

=Medicinal uses=

Codonopsis pilosula ({{zh|c=|p=dǎngshēn}}) is an important medicinal herb in traditional Chinese medicine.Li, C. Y., et al. (2009). [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19004445 Quality assessment of Radix Codonopsis by quantitative nuclear magnetic resonance.] Journal of Chromatography A 1216(11) 2124-29.

=Food uses=

Species

49 species are accepted.[https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:5656-1 Codonopsis Wall.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 23 August 2024.

=Formerly placed here=

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

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