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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Rubiaceae (アカネ科) > Damnacanthus indicus
Damnacanthus C. F. Gaertn. (アリドオシ)Aridooshi (アリドオシ, 蟻通), Indian damnacanthusLifeform: evergreen shrub < 60 cm in height Distribution: India - southeastern Asia - Korea - south to Kanto District in Japan Habitat: floors of evergreen borad-leaved forest Length of spine ≥ leaf with 7-20 mm long |
Fruit: red → animal dispersal var. indicus f. microphyllus Makino (ヒメアリドオシ), dwarf form var. intermedius Matsum. (ビシンジュズネノキ) var. lancifolius Makino (ホソバオオアリドオシ): spine < 1/2 of leaf in length f. oblongus (Koidz.) Sugim. (コバンバニセジュズネノキ) var. major (Siebold et Zucc.) Makino (オオアリドオシ)var. okinawensis Hatus. (リュウキュウジュズネノキ) |