中文名（Chinese Name）：芙蓉菊
学名（Scientific Name）：Crossostephium chinense (A.Gray ex L.) Makino
英文名（English Common Name）：
别名（Chinese Common Name）：香菊、玉芙蓉
异名（Synonym）：Crossostephium chinense (A.Gray ex L.) Makino  Chrysanthemum artemisioides (Less.) Kitam.  Artemisia chinense L.
科属（Family & Genus）：菊科（Compositae）芙蓉菊属
形态特征（Description）：半灌木，高10-40厘米，上部多分枝，密被灰色短柔毛。叶聚生枝顶，狭匙形或狭倒披针形，长2-4厘米，宽5-4毫米，全缘或有时3-5裂，顶端钝，基部渐狭，两面密被灰色短柔毛，质地厚。头状花序盘状，直径约7毫米，有长6-15毫米的细梗，生于枝端叶腋，排成有叶的总状花序；总苞半球形；总苞片3层，外中层等长，椭圆形，钝或急尖，叶质，内层较短小，矩圆形，几无毛，具宽膜质边缘。边花雌性，1列，花冠管状，长1.5毫米，顶端2-3裂齿，具腺点；盘花两性，花冠管状，长1.5毫米，顶端5裂齿，外面密生腺点。瘦果矩圆形，长约1.5毫米，基部收狭，具5(-7)棱，被腺点；冠状冠毛长约0.5毫米，撕裂状。花果期全年。
分布（Distribution）：产我国中南及东南部，中南半岛、菲律宾及日本有栽培。
用途（Use）：
引自中国植物志英文版FOC Vol. 20-21 Page 682, 747
Crossostephium chinensis (Linnaeus) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 20: 33. 1906.
芙蓉菊 fu rong ju | Asteraceae  | Crossostephium
Artemisia chinensis Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 2: 849. 1753; Chrysanthemum artemisioides (Lessing) Kitamura; Crossostephium artemisioides Lessing; Tanacetum chinense (Linnaeus) A. Gray ex Maximowicz.
Plants 10-40 cm tall, much branched in upper part, densely gray-white pubescent. Leaves sessile, aggregated at apex of branches; leaf blade narrowly spatulate or narrowly lanceolate, 2-4 × 0.4-0.5 cm, both surfaces densely gray-white pubescent, base cuneate-attenuate, margin entire or sometimes apex 3- or 4-lobed, thick. Capitula rather small, disciform, ca. 7 mm in diam., many, in a frondose raceme along branches. Involucres hemispheric; phyllaries in 3 rows, outer and middle ones equal, elliptic, herbaceous, abaxially densely gray-white pubescent, apex obtuse or acute, inner ones oblong, small, abaxially subglabrous, margin broadly scarious. Marginal female florets in 1 row, tubular, ca. 1.5 mm, gland-dotted outside, apex 2- or 3-denticulate. Disk florets many, tubular, densely gland-dotted outside, 5-lobed. Pappus ca. 0.5 mm, coroniform, of small scales. Fl. and fr. year-round.
Littoral plant found on raised coral outcrops. Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [Japan].
Crossostephium chinensis is rare and possibly threatened in the wild but is often cultivated for ornamental and medicinal purposes. The whole plant is used medicinally for treating infantile convulsions.

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