Sarcandra glabra
"Sarcandra glabra" is an herb native to Southeast Asia. It is also known as herba sarcandrae or glabrous sarcandra herb. Aromatic oils may be extracted from the leaves. This extract may reduce immunologic attenuation due to stress, in mice. Morphology. Leaf blade elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, 6–17 × 2–6 cm, leathery, margin sharply coarsely-serrate. Stamen baculate to terete; thecae shorter than connective. Stigma subcapitate. Fruit globose or ovoid, 3–4 mm in diam. Distribution. Distributed in Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Cambodia, Malaysia, India, Japan, Korea, the Philippines and mainland China, Jiangxi, Anhui, Fujian, Guizhou, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan , Guangdong, Zhejiang and other places, growing at an altitude of 420 meters to 1,500 meters in area, often grown in wet slopes and valleys of the forest shade. It has not yet been cultivated by artificial introduction. Common names. "Nine-knotted flower," "bone-knitted lotus." in Japanese culture. The plant is called "Senryō" (千両) in Japanese. Because of the red berries and the word play of its name it is used during Japanese New Year for "chabana" decoration, normally along winter jasmine. Another plant used instead because of its similarity is the coralberry tree and "Ardisia japonica".