PUBLISHED IN: Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, sér. 2(3): 327–328. 1930.

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ETYMOLOGY: with flowers in panicles.

BASIONYM: Mitrosicyos paniculatus Maxim., Mémoires Presentes a l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg par Divers Savans et lus dans ses Assemblées 9: 113. 1859.

SYNONYMY: Actinostemma multilobum Harms, Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 29(5): 602–603. 1901.
     Actinostemma paniculatum (Maxim.) Maxim. ex Cogn., Monographiae Phanerogamarum 3: 920. 1881. Basionym: Mitrosicyos paniculatus Maxim., Mémoires Presentes a l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg par Divers Savans et lus dans ses Assemblées 9: 113. 1859.
     Schizopepon fargesii Gagnep., Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 24(5): 377. 1918.

INFRASPECIFIC TAXA:

VERNACULAR NAME: Chinese: tu bei mu, jia jian mu

OTHER VERNACULAR NAMES: pseudo-fritillary

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DESCRIPTION: Roots: tuber forming.

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DISTRIBUTION: Eastern and central China south to northern Sichuan.

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EDIBLE USE: Tubers are used as a vegetable, raw or cooked.

MEDICINAL USE: Sometimes used as a substitute for Fritillaria hupehensis Hsiao & K. C. Hsia, an important medicinal herb in the Liliaceae.

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CULTIVATION PRACTICES: Occasionally cultivated.

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LITERATURE: Yu L., Yu T., and Ma R., 1995. Inhibition of the tumor promoting action of 12-O-tetradecanoylphorbol-13-acetate by tubeimoside III isolated from Bolbostemma paniculatum. Carcinogenesis 16 (12): 3045–3048.
     Yu L. J., Ma R. D., Jiang S. B. 1994. Effects of tubeimoside-1 on HIV core protein p24 and cytopathogenesis in vitro. Chung Kuo Yao Li Hsueh Pao 15 (2): 103–106.

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