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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 June 18 2011)

Japanese white wake robin
Trillium tschonoskii Maximowicz
Trilliaceae, or Liliaceae (s.l.)

Sirobana-enreisou / Miyama-enreisou (シロバナエンレイソウ / ミヤマエンレイソウ, 白花延齢草 / 深山延齢草)

Lifeform: perennial herb
Distribution: the Himalayas - Sakhalin - Japan
Habitat: deciduous (or mixed) forests
Chromosome number: 2n = 20

Varieties

var. tschonoskii: the type
var. atrorubens Miyabe et Tatewaki (エゾノミヤマエンレイソウ): endemic to Hokkaido
var. himaliacum Hara
f. cryptopetalum Makino (コバナエンレイソウ)


Trillium tschonoskii

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[Left] shoots. [Center] a flower and the peduncle (flower stalk). [Right] close-up of a flower. On the south slope of Mount Usu on May 13 2011.


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