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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 March 14 2009)

Climbing gentian
Tripterospermum japonicum (Sieb. et Zucc.) Maxim.
[Gentianaceae]

Tsururindou (ツルリンドウ, 蔓竜胆)

Lifeform: perennial herbaceous vine
Distribution: China- Japan

Synonyms

T. trinervium (Thunb.) H. Ohashi et H. Nakai
T. japonicum (Sieb. et Zucc.) Maxim. var. tenue (Masamune) Honda


Tripterospermum Blume in Japan

T. japonicum (Sieb. et Zucc.) Maxim. (ツルリンドウ)
T. trinervium (Thunb.) H.Ohashi et H.Nakai var. involubile (N. Yonez.) H. Ohashi et H. Nakai (テングノコヅチ)


Tripterospermum japonicum in Hokkaido

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Under a dwarf bamoboo shrub in Shinsen Bog, Niseko, on June 26, 2006.


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