“…It is popularly known as an aphrodisiac herb in folk herbal medicine in Nepal (Sacherer 1979, Bhattarai 1993. O. sinensis is naturally distributed in the northern alpine grasslands of Nepal, Bhutan and India and in Tibetan Plateau of China, ranging from 3000 to 5000 m above sea level (Balfour-Browne 1955, DMP 1970, Sacherer 1979, Kobayasi 1980, 1981, Otani 1982, Shrestha 1985, Adhikari & Durrieu 1996, DPR 1997, Chen et al 1999, 2004, Mizuno 1999, Adhikari 2000, Kinjo & Zang 2001, Liu et al 2001, Winkler 2004,2010, Chhetri 2005, Holliday et al 2005, Shrestha & Sung 2005, Canney 2006, Devkota 2006, 2008a,b, 2009, Li et al 2006, Halpern 2007, Amatya 2008, Chhetri & Lodhiyal 2008, Shrestha et al 2010, Singh et al 2010, Weckerle et al 2010 Morphological characters: Stromata solitary or branched, light to dark brown, arising from the thorax of the host, 55~75 × 1.5~2.5 mm; head slightly wider than the stipe; perithecia semi-immersed, ellipsoid, ovoid or oval.…”