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Gigil hydrangea (Hydrangea febrifuga)

Dlium Gigil hydrangea (Hydrangea febrifuga)

Gigil hydrangea (Hydrangea febrifuga) is a species of plant in the Hydrangeaceae, a shrub with erect stems, oblong leaves, indigo or blue or white flowers and widely cultivated as an ornamental plant.

H. febrifuga grows to 2 m, 2.5 m wide, stems erect and branched. Leaves have long stalks, sitting opposite, oval or elongated, thick, pointed tip, blunt base and serrated margins.



The leaves have a large vein in the middle with many pinnate veins, the upper side is dark green and glossy, the underside is pale green. Flowers are corymbs, growing at the apex in a panicle with branching stalks, blooms are indigo or blue or white.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Cornales
Family: Hydrangeaceae
Genus: Hydrangea Gronov. ex L. in Sp. Pl.: 397 (1753)
Section: Dichroa
Species: Hydrangea febrifuga (Lour.) Y.De Smet & C.Granados in Taxon 64: 750 (2015)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Dichroa febrifuga Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 301 (1790)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Adamia chinensis Gardner & Champ. in Hooker's J. Bot. Kew Gard. Misc. 1: 311 (1849)
Adamia sylvatica Meisn. in W.G.Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 377 (1843)
Cianitis chinensis Hook.f. & Thomson in J. Proc. Linn. Soc., Bot. 2: 76 (1857)
Cianitis sylvatica Reinw. in Syll. Pl. Nov. 2: 11 (1825)
Dichroa cyanitis Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(1): 721 (1856)
Dichroa febrifuga var. glabra S.Y.Hu in J. Arnold Arbor. 61: 77 (1980)
Dichroa henryi H.Lév. in Sert. Yunnan.: 1 (1916)
Dichroa latifolia Miq. (1856)
Dichroa parviflora Schltr. in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 52: 121 (1914)
Dichroa pentandra Schltr. (1914)
Dichroa philippinensis Schltr. (1914)
Dichroa pubescens Miq. (1856)
Dichroa schumanniana Schltr. (1914)
Dichroa sylvatica (Reinw.) Mottet in Dict. Prat. Hort. 2: 202 (1893-1894)
Dichroa thyrsoidea Elmer in Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 10: 3807 (1939)
Hydrangea pubescens Zipp. ex Miq. (1856)
Callicarpa esquirolii H.Lév. in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 9(Aug.): 456 (1911)
Callicarpa leveilleana Fedde in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 10: 64 (1911)

PUBLICATIONS

Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6. Scientific Data 8: 215.

Kiew, R. & al. (eds.) (2021). Malayan Forest Records 49: 1-403.

Rajbhandari, K.R., Rai, S.K. & Chhetri, R. (2021). A Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Nepal 3: 1-331. Department of Plant Resources, Thapathali, Kathmandu, Nepal.

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 常山
Chinese (traditional): 常山 - 白常山
English: Gigil hydrangea, Gigil, Anti-febrile dichroa, Chinese quinine
Hong Kong: 常山 - 白常山
Indonesia: Gigil, Tataruman
Japanese: ジョウザン
Java: Gigil
Macao: 常山 - 白常山
Russian: Дихроа противолихорадочная
Slovak: Hortenzia protihorúčková
Sunda: Ramram
Taiwan: 常山 - 白常山
Thai: ยายคลังใหญ่ - ฮอมดง

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