| Accepted name: |
Hemerocallis fulva (L.) L. |
| Synonym(s): |
-Hemerocallis lilioasphodelus L. var. fulva L.
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| English names: |
Orange Day-lily
Tawny Day-lily
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| French names: |
Hémérocalle fauve
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| Classification: |
Kingdom: Plantae
Divison: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
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| OPL Code: |
HHEMFU
(to track OPL, Newmaster et al. 1998) |
| Lifeform: |
2 |
| Lifecycle: |
P |
| Source database: |
FOIBIS, June 2005-2012 |
| Floristic Affinities: |
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| Distribution: |
-
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| Ecosystem: |
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| Ethnobotanical Notes: |
The dried flowers are used as spice, root tubers and flower buds are eaten as vegetable. The root extract is diuretic, anti-swelling. It is used for oliguria, gonorrhoe and breast abscess. Medicinal use for women in child birth, applied externally in pains, the flower extract as blood purifier, in folk medicine for ascites, hepatitis, hemorrhoe and as sedativum. Also anti-bacterial activity.(1) |
| Key Characters: |
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