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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 December 8 2011)

Ranunculus silerifolius H. Lev. [Ranunculaceae]

Ranunculus silerifolius H. Lev. (s.l.)

Kitsunenobotan (キツネノボタン, 狐ノ牡丹)

Lifeform: deciduous perennial forb
Distribution: Korea - Japan
Habitat: wet sites, e.g., wetlands, and forest floor
Poisonous
Chromosome number: 2n = 16

Varieties

var. glaber (H.Boissieu) Tamura (キツネノボタン, s.s.)
var. silerifolius (ヤマキツネノボタン)
f. pleniflorus (Ohtani et Shig. Suzuki) Konta et Katsuyama (ヤエキツネノボタン)
f. prostratus (Nakai) Kadota (ハイキツネノボタン)


Ranunculus silerifolius in Hokkaido

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On the foot of Mount Yosomi, which erupted in 1910, on August 10 2011.

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References

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