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Atropanthe (Chinese name 天蓬子 tian peng zi) is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to tribe Hyoscyameae of subfamily Solanoideae of the family Solanaceae.
The single species, Atropanthe sinensis (Hemsl.) Pascher is native to the temperate forests of S. Central China (to Hunan). It is a herbaceous perennial (specifically a rhizomatous hemicryptophyte) which bears a marked similarity (particularly in regard to the form of the corolla) to the related genus Atropa - whence the genus name Atropanthe ( meaning ‘having a flower resembling that of Atropa’).
Atropanthe sinensis contains the tropane alkaloids hyoscyamine and anisodine and also the pyrrolidine alkaloid bellaradine, a.k.a. cuscohygrine, (which is not one of the tropane alkaloids, but may be biogenetically related to them ) and occurs also in the closely related genera Atropa, Anisodus and Przewalskia.
An area encompassing NW Guizhou, W Hubei, SE Sichuan and NE Yunnan and including the Hengduan Mountains.
Like all the other genera of the Solanaceous tribe Hyoscyameae (of which the best-known member is the infamous deadly nightshade), the genus Atropanthe is rich in tropane alkaloids - compounds possessing anticholinergic properties which are therapeutically useful in small doses and dangerously hallucinogenic (deliriant) in larger ones.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Atropanthe by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
