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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(First update on February 15 2011. Last on December 16 2011)

Asian copperleaf
Acalypha australis L. [Euphorbiaceae]

Enokigusa (エノキグサ, 榎草)

Lifeform : weedy annual forb
Distribution: Eastern Asia, including Japan
Habitat: ruderal
Chromosome number: 2n = 32 (2x)


Acalypha L. in Japan

400-450 species in the world

A. australis L. (エノキグサ)

f. velutina (Honda) Ohwi (ビロードエノキグサ): not in Hokkaido

A. indica L. (キダチアミガサ): exotic


Acalypha australis in Hokkaido

ST1 ST2
ST3 ST4
[1] a patch. [2] a shoot seeing from the top. [1/2] at the center of Shibetsu, northern Hokkaido, on September 13 2010. [3] a shoot seeing from the side. [4] inflorescences on the top of a shoot. [3/4] at N26/W2, Sapporo, on September 12 2011


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