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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 November 21 2011)

Trapa japonica Flerow [Trapaceae]

Hishi (ヒシ, 菱)

Lifeform: annual aquatic forb
Distribution: China - Taiwan - Korea - Japan
Habitat: waterlogged wetlands, such as ponds and swamps
Chromosome number: 2n = 96
Edible plant

Synonyms

Trapa japonica Flerow var. tuberculifera (V. Vassil.) Tzvelev
Trapa natans L. var. bispinosa Makino, excl. basion.
Trapa japonica Flerow var. makinoi (Nakano) Ohba, comb. nud.
Trapa bicornis Osbeck var. iinumae (Nakano) Nakano
Trapa bicornis Osbeck var. makinoi (Nakano) Nakano
Trapa bicornis Osbeck var. iwasakii (Nakano) Nakano
Trapa bispinosa Roxb. var. makinoi Nakano
Trapa bispinosa Roxb. var. iinumae Nakano


Trapaceae L.

Annual aquatic forb

Trapa L.

one genus in this family (the taxonomy is controversial)

T. bicornis Osbeck (コウモリビシ)

var. bispinosa (Roxb.) Nakano (トウビシ)
var. taiwanensis (Nakai) Z. T. Xiong (タイワンビシ)

T. incisa Siebold et Zucc. (ヒメビシ)
T. japonica Flerow (ヒシ)
T. macropoda Miki (シリブトビシ)
T. natans L. (オニビシ)

var. pumila Nakano ex Verdc. (コオニビシ)

T. pseudincisa Nakai (マンセンビシ)


Trapa japonica in Hokkaido

ST1 ST2
At Zenibako Coast (銭函海岸), Otaru City, on August 31 2011.


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