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Gonocarpus chinensis
Chinese raspwort (Gonocarpus chinensis) is a small perennial shrub of wet tropical regions, growing up to about 60 cm tall, found in grasslands, riverbanks and waste ground. It is mostly grown as an ornamental or used in traditional medicine rather than for food or crops.
Gonocarpus chinensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Haloragaceae. This shrub is sometimes known by the common name Chinese raspwort. It is native to Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland, New South Wales) Borneo, the Caroline Islands, South-Central and Southeast China, Hainan, Indonesia, the Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaysia, Nansei-shoto, New Guinea, the Philippines,Queensland, Sulawesi, Sumatera, and Vietnam. It was introduced to the Hawaiian islands and California. It is not considered an economically important species but can be used for medicine and gardening as ornamental plants. This species lives in wet tropical regions, grasslands, riverbanks and in waste lands in elevations at 100 to 800 meters but at 1800 meters in Southwest China.
This species has two known subspecies named Gonocarpus chinensis subsp.
Gonocarpus effusus · Hill Raspwort · Gonocarpus hirtus · Shade Raspwort · Gonocarpus micranthus · Mat Raspwort · Mountain Raspwort · Common Raspwort · Raspwort · Raspwort
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gonocarpus chinensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
