目前为止，中国西南野生生物种质资源库共保藏该物种: 种子10份; DNA材料18份; DNA2份;

• 科:蓼科    Polygonaceae
• 属:大黄属    Rheum
• 种:掌叶大黄   Rheum palmatum

13. Rheum palmatum Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10. 2: 1010. 1759. 掌叶大黄 zhang ye da huang Rheum palmatumCredit: Harvard University Herbaria Rheum potaninii Losinskaja; R. qinlingense Y. K. Yang et al.Herbs large, 1.5-2 m tall, stout. Rhizomes and roots stout. Stem hollow, sulcate, subglabrous or muricate on nodes. Petiole of basal leaf terete, ca. as long as blade, densely papilliferous; leaf blade large, ca. as long as wide, 40-60 cm, abaxially densely pubescent, adaxially sulcate to papilliferous, basal veins 5, base cordate, palmately divided into pinnatisect lobes, apex acuminate or narrowly acute. Stem leaves smaller above; ocrea large, to 15 cm, outside muricate. Panicle large; branches connivent, densely pubescent. Pedicel 2-2.5 mm, jointed below middle. Flowers small. Tepals 6, purple-red, rarely yellow-white, outer 3 elliptic to orbicular, smaller, 1-1.5 mm. Stamens not exceeding perianth. Ovary rhomboid-ovoid; style slightly deflexed; stigma inflated. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid to oblong, 8-9 × 7-7.5 mm, both ends retuse; wings ca. 2.5 mm wide, with longitudinal veins near margin. Seeds brown-black, broadly ovoid. Fl. Jun, fr. Aug.* Slopes, valleys; 1500-4400 m. Gansu, Hubei, Nei Mongol, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xizang, Yunnan [cultivated in Russia].The roots and rhizomes are used medicinally.【引自：Flora of China】

高大粗壮草本，高1.5-2米，根及根状茎粗壮木质。茎直立中空，叶片长宽近相等，长达40-60厘米，有时长稍大于宽，顶端窄渐尖或窄急尖，基部近心形，通常成掌状半5裂，每一大裂片又分为近羽状的窄三角形小裂片，基出脉多为5条，叶上面粗糙到具乳突状毛，下面及边缘密被短毛；叶柄粗壮，圆柱状，与叶片近等长，密被锈乳突状毛；茎生叶向上渐小，柄亦渐短；托叶鞘大，长达15厘米，内面光滑，外表粗糙。大型圆锥花序，分枝较聚拢，密被粗糙短毛；花小, 通常为紫红色，有时黄白色；花梗长2-2.5毫米，关节位于中部以下；花被片6, 外轮3片较窄小，内轮3片较大，宽椭圆形到近圆形，长1-1.5毫米；雄蕊9, 不外露；花盘薄，与花丝基部粘连；子房菱状宽卵形，花柱略反曲，柱头头状。果实矩圆状椭圆形到矩圆形，长8-9毫米，宽7-7.5毫米，两端均下凹，翅宽约2.5毫米，纵脉靠近翅的边缘。种子宽卵形，棕黑色。花期6月，果期8月。果期果序的分枝直而聚拢。 【引自：中国植物志】