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Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen

South China ginseng; Notoginseng; San-qi ginseng; Sanchi ginseng

Araliaceae · Vietnam

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, (Burkill) F.H.Chen ex C.H.Chow.

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Panax notoginseng, photograph Ping an Chang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPanax notoginseng, photograph Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsPanax notoginseng, photograph Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0, via Wikimedia CommonsPanax notoginseng, photograph Zhangmoon618, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPanax notoginseng, photograph Zhangmoon618, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPanax notoginseng, photograph Tolungkwong18, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 9 photographs ›

Summary

Panax notoginseng is a species of the genus Panax, and it is commonly referred to in English as Chinese ginseng or notoginseng. In Chinese it is called tiánqī (田七), tienchi ginseng, sānqī (三七) or sanchi, three-seven root, and mountain plant. P. notoginseng belongs to the same scientific genus as Panax ginseng. In Latin, the word panax means "cure-all", and the family of ginseng plants is one of the best-known herbs.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Panax notoginseng", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeVietnam · introduced: China Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Extinct inChina South-Central · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“perennial” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 11 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 7811079 (Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen ex C.Y.Wu & K.M.Feng): Kew's file holds it as Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen (accepted); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Ping an Chang, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Fumikas Sagisavas, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Zhangmoon618, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Tolungkwong18, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Panax 5 in the reference

Panax ginseng Panax ginseng Korean ginseng Photo: CC BY, Nina FilippovaPanax japonicus Panax japonicus Japanese ginseng Photo: CC BY, plant 0302Panax pseudoginseng Panax pseudoginseng Himalayan ginseng Photo: CC BY, Siddarth MachadoPanax quinquefolius Panax quinquefolius American ginseng Photo: CC BY, Jim ArrigoniPanax trifolius Panax trifolius Dwarf ginseng Photo: CC BY, Loïc Mathieu

Names & registers

Also known as Aralia quinquefolia var. notoginseng; Panax pseudoginseng var. notoginseng. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Araliaceae
Described by
(Burkill) F.H.Chen
Native to
Vietnam
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF's key 8877811 is Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen ex C.H.Chow; the page links Kew's Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen, and the name is cited as Kew cites it
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 7811079, Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen ex C.Y.Wu & K.M.Feng (Kew's file holds it as Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 91521-1 is Kew's for Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F.H.Chen
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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