Paeonia emodi Wall. ex Royle Paeoniaceae
Paeonia emodi Wall. ex Royle: Paeonia emodi fo. glabrata (Hook. f. & Thomson) H. Hara; Paeonia emodi var. glabrata Hook. f. & Thomson
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Synonyms Paeonia emodi Wall. ex Royle: Paeonia emodi fo. glabrata (Hook. f. & Thomson) H. Hara; Paeonia emodi var. glabrata Hook. f. & Thomson
Local Names Paeonia emodi: Pashto: Mamiakh, Mamekh; Urdu: Mamuk, Oode saleeb; Kashmir: Mydh
H. Sher Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Swat, Mingora, Pakistan I. Ur Rahman United Nations Development Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan 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_171-1
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Botany and Ecology Paeonia emodi: Herbs perennial, to 70 cm tall. Stems glabrous. Proximal leaves 2-ternate; some leaflets segmented; leaflets and segments up to 15, oblong-elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, 9–13 2–3.5 cm, both surfaces glabrous, base cuneate, decurrent, apex acuminate. Flowers 2–4 per shoot, both terminal and axillary, single, 8–12 cm wide, all or only terminal one fully developed. Bracts 3–6, leaflike, lanceolate. Sepals about 3, suborbicular, about 1.5 1.5 cm, apex caudate. Petals white, obovate, about 4.5 2.4 cm. Filaments 1.5–2 cm. Disc annular. Carpel 1 (or 2), pale yellow tomentose, rarely glabrous. Follicles ovoid, 2–3.5 1–2 cm. Seeds black, globose. Flowering May–June, fruiting August–September. Open Slopes in coniferous forest 2000–4000 m in Pakistan. Distributed in Nepal, China, India, Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Pakistan. Locally found in the high coniferous forest of Pakistan. Harvesting time: August–March, (Wu et al. 1994–2013). The Himalayan peony is widely distributed in the W. and N.W. Himalayas up to 3200 m in forest clearings, where it is gregarious. Some authors mention the flower color as pink or red. Endangered due to over-harvesting (Ahmad Jan et al. 2019) (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8).
Phytochemistry Organic acids: (benzoic); Essential oils; Monoterpenoids: (peoniflorin, albiflorin, oxypeoniflorin, benzoylpeoniflorin, peoniflorienone); Triterpenoids; Steroids: (sitosterol); Quinones (Sokolov 1985).
Fig. 1 Paeonia emodi (Paeoniaceae), Swat, Pakistan. (Photo Haider Ali)
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Fig. 2 Paeonia emodi (Paeoniaceae), Badgowai valley, Dir, Kohistan, Pakistan. (Photo Ikram Ur-Rahman and Hassan Sher)
Fig. 3 Paeonia emodi (Paeoniaceae), Badgowai valley, Dir, Kohistan, Pakistan. (Photo Ikram Ur-Rahman and Hassan Sher)
Local Medicinal Uses Paeonia emodi: The underground tubers are useful in nervous disorders. The dried flowers are used for stomach complaints (diarrhea) The seeds are purgative and emetic. The roots of Paeonia emodi are widely used in the
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