Lespedeza, also known as litchi: Labiatae plant, born on hillsides, roadsides, wasteland and rivers. Location: Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui provinces. Harvesting, drying or fresh use in summer and autumn when the flowers bloom and the ears are green.
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Morphological characteristics:
Annual or biennial herbs; The taproot is thick and straight with many fibrous roots. Stems erect, 15-90 cm tall, stout, multi-branched, grayish white, fluffy downward.
The leaves are elliptic-ovoid or elliptic-lanceolate, 2-6 cm long and 0.8-2.5 cm wide, the apex is blunt or sharp, the base is round or wedge-shaped, the teeth are round, the edge is toothed or sharply serrated, herbs, sparse bristles at the top, pubescence at the bottom, and the rest are scattered in yellow-brown glandular points; Petiole is 4- 15 mm long, concave and convex, densely pubescent.
Inflorescence 6-flowered, mostly, densely forming racemes or raceme panicles at the top of stems and branches, the inflorescence length is 10-25 cm, and it is prolonged when bearing fruit; Bracts lanceolate, longer or shorter than calyx; Tapering at the top, tapering at the base, entire, puberulent on both sides, dense at the lower part, and ciliate at the edge; Pedicel ca. 1 mm, densely puberulent with inflorescence axis.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-litchi