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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

(Update on Nov. 18 2007. Revise on Nov. 24 2008)

Umbrella Leaf
Diphylleia grayi Fr. Schmidt [Berberidaceae]

Sankayou (サンカヨウ, 山荷葉)

Life form: Perennial forb
Distribution: Japan (Honshu - Hokkaido)
Habitat: forest, including edge
Seed dispersal: animal

Variety/Forma

- f. incisa Takeda (Kirehasankayou)
- f. rotundata Takeda (Marubasankayou)

Synonyms

Diphylleia cymosa Michx. subsp. grayi (Fr. Schmidt) Kitam.
Diphylleia cymosa Michx. subsp. grayi (Fr. Schmidt) Kitam. var. incisa (Takeda) T. Shimizu
Diphylleia grayi Fr. Schmidt var. incisa Takeda


Diphylleia grayi in Japan

Diphylleia Diphylleia
[Left] On the foot of Mount Teine, Sapporo, on May 25, 1985. [Right] Photo taken near Ninoji Skislope, Niigata Prefecture, on June 6, 1996.


Referneces

  • Tsuyuzaki, S. 1995. Ski slope vegetation in central Honshu, Japan. Environmental Management 19: 773-777

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