08:58 Jul 4, 2005 |
Chinese to English translations [PRO] Science - Botany / plant names | |||||||
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4 +1 | jia mu zei |
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jia mu zei Explanation: I believe it should be "jia mu zei" - 假木贼 盐生假木贼 yan sheng jia mu zei http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=2... Brachylepis salsa C. A. Meyer in Ledebour, Fl. Altaic. 1: 372. 1829; Anabasis ramosissima Minkwitz; Microlepis salsa (C. A. Meyer) Eichwald. Subshrubs 10-20 cm tall. Woody stem much branched, gray-brown to gray-white; annual branches numerous, erect or obliquely spreading, upper ones with 5-10 internodes; internodes usually 0.6-2 cm, terete or slightly ribbed, smooth. Lower and middle leaves spreading and recurved, linear, semiterete, 2-5 mm, apex with a pellucid, acicular, caducous awn; upper leaves scale-like, triangular, apex subobtuse, awnless. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, forming short spikes on upper part of branches; bractlets abaxially fleshy, margin membranous. Perianth segments 1.5-2 mm, unchanging in fruit, without abaxial wing; outer 3 segments suborbicular; inner 2 segments broadly ovate, apex obtuse. Disk lobes obscure or slightly semiorbicular. Ovary ovoid, smooth; stigmas black-brown. Utricle broadly ovoid, apex protruding from perianth; pericarp yellow-brown or slightly reddish, fleshy. Gobi desert, saline-alkaline deserts. N Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia (Lower Volga region, SW Siberia); SW Asia (E Caucasus)]. Camels eat this plant in winter. |
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