Lyonia ovalifolia (Wall.) Drude Ericaceae
Lyonia ovalifolia (Wall.) Drude: Andromeda ovalifolia Wall.; Andromeda capricida Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Andromeda cordata Royle; Andromeda squamulosa D.Don; Arbutus herpetica Coleb. ex Roxb.; Lyonia neziki Nakai & Hara; Pieridia ovalifolia (Wall.) Peter
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Synonyms Lyonia ovalifolia (Wall.) Drude: Andromeda ovalifolia Wall.; Andromeda capricida Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don; Andromeda cordata Royle; Andromeda squamulosa D.Don; Arbutus herpetica Coleb. ex Roxb.; Lyonia neziki Nakai & Hara; Pieridia ovalifolia (Wall.) Peterm.; Pieris ovalifolia (Wall.) D. Don; Xolisma ovalifolia (Wall.) Rehder
P. Bhandari Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal K. K. Shrestha Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal R. M. Kunwar Ethnobotanical Society of Nepal (ESON), Kathmandu, Nepal Cultural Geography, Department of Geosciences, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA e-mail: [email protected] R. W. Bussmann (*) Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia e-mail: [email protected] N. Y. Paniagua-Zambrana Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 R. Kunwar et al. (eds.), Ethnobotany of the Himalayas, Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45597-2_145-1
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Local Names Lyonia ovalifolia: Gharwal: Anyar; Nepali: Aayanr, Angeree, Anger, Anyar, Agneri, Thaune, Thainyar, Surti; Jammu: Allan, Aon; Gurung: Chyarsi, Chyarno, Chesin; Magar: Angare, Pakasing; Sherpa: Rongle; Tamang: Tomasing; Tibetan: Chuayme; Chinese: Zhen Zhu Hua; English: Fetterbrush, Staggerbush
Botany and Ecology Lyonia ovalifolia: Shrubs or trees, deciduous or evergreen, 1–4 m tall. Twigs glabrous or pubescent. Buds narrowly ovoid, (1–)3–9( 11.5) mm, glabrous. Petiole 4–9 mm, glabrous or pubescent; leaf blade ovate, narrowly to broadly elliptic, lanceolate, or suborbicular, 3–20 2–12 cm, papery to thinly leathery, both surfaces with white or brown hairs, rarely abaxially densely white villous on midvein or subglabrous, veins prominently raised to slightly depressed or nearly obscure, base obtuse, cuneate, or sometimes cordate, apex acuminate. Inflorescences 5–20 cm, pubescent; lower 1–3(or 4) bracts leaflike or not. Pedicel 2–10 mm, densely pubescent. Calyx lobes oblong or triangular, 2–6 mm, densely or sometimes sparsely pubescent. Corolla tubular, 8–11 mm, abaxially densely pubescent; lobes about 1 mm. Filaments 5–8 mm, pilose, with 2 spurs at apex. Ovary glabrous or pubescent. Capsule globose or ovoid, 3–5 mm in diameter, with thick sutures or not, glabrous to densely pubescent. Flowering May–June, fruiting July–September (Kunwar et al. 2019; Judd 1981; Wu et al. 2005; Wu et al. 1994–2013; Figs. 1 and 2). Lyonia ovalifolia usually occurs in cool to warm Temperate Broadleaf forest: Oak-Rhododendron forest, Rhododendron thickets, Schima-Castanopsis forest; Pine-Oak forest, Picea-Pinus forest,
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