Ethnopharmacology of five flowers herbal tea, a popular traditional beverage in Hong Kong and South China

Table 3 Summary of identification of suspected adulterants using BLASTN search from GenBank

Voucher number	Species claimed	DNA barcoding region	Species identification using BLASTN	Max percent identity
HK09	Lonicera japonica	psbA-trnH	Lonicera macranthoides	100
HK10	Artemisia capillaris	ITS2	Potentilla chinensis	99.01
HK11	Lonicera japonica	psbA-trnH	Lonicera macranthoides	97.61
KL05	Lonicera japonica	psbA-trnH	Lonicera macranthoides	100
KL06	Lysimachia christinae	ITS2	Desmodium styracifolium	100
KL09	Lysimachia christinae	ITS2	Desmodium styracifolium	100
NT05	Lysimachia christinae	ITS2	Desmodium styracifolium	100
NT07	Artemisia capillaris	ITS2	Potentilla discolor	99.71
NT11	Lysimachia christinae	ITS2	Desmodium styracifolium	100
NT05	Lonicera japonica	ITS2	Lonicera macranthoides	97.79

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