Plantae > Tracheophyta > Gnetopsida > Ephedrales > Ephedraceae > Ephedra > Ephedra gerardianaEphedra gerardiana (Gerard jointfir)Synonyms: Ephedra gerardiana var. wallichii Ephedra gerardiana (Gerard's Jointfir, 山岭麻黄 shan ling ma huang) is a species of Ephedra, endemic to the mountains of Afghanistan, Bhutan, northern India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sikkim, Tajikistan, and Tibet. It is a perennial small shrub composed primarily of fibrous stalks, generally about 8 inches though sometimes growing to 24 inches in height, with small, yellow flowers followed by round, red, edible fruits. It is sometimes used as a stimulant, and in Ayurvedic medicine its tea is used as medicine for colds, coughs, bronchitis, asthma, and arthritis. |
| Allergen Potential [1] | High |  | | Edible [2] | May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details. | | Flower Type [2] | Dioecious | | Leaf Type [2] | Evergreen | | Structure [2] | Shrub | | Usage [2] | The wood is very close grained; Too small for commercial exploitation, though it is used locally for fuel;
A good ground cover plant for dry soils; Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way; | | | Height [2] | 24 inches (0.6 m) | | Width [2] | 6.56 feet (2 m) |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Derived from Allergy-Free Gardening OPALS™, Thomas Leo Ogren (2000) ♦ 2Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License♦ 3Food plants and feeding habits of Himalayan ungulates, Anjali Awasthi, Sanjay Kr. Uniyal, Gopal S. Rawat and S. Sathyakumar, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 85, NO. 6, 25 SEPTEMBER 2003 ♦ 4Vulpes ferrilata (Carnivora: Canidae), HOWARD O. CLARK, JR., DARREN P. NEWMAN, JAMES D.MURDOCH, JACK TSENG, ZHENGHUAN H.WANG, AND RICHARD B. HARRIS, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 821:1–6 (2008) |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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