芙蓉菊Crossostephium chinense

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.