(First upload on April 9 2012. Last on March 24 2014) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Fern (シダ類) > Gleicheniaceae (ウラジロ科) > Dicranopteris linearis
Koshida (コシダ, 小羊歯), old world forked fern Lifeform: evergreen perennial fern Distribution: sub-tropical regions, including southern Japan (not in Hokkaido) Habitat: scattered forests, including forest edges Wildfire: considered to be one cause of wildfire, because of the development of thick litter |
Synonyms:
Dicranopteris dichotoma (Thunb.) Bernh. [adopted by Tagawa] var. tetraphylla (Rosenst.) Nakai (オニコシダ) f. shinagawae (H. Ito) Sugim. (イキノコシダ) |
D. linearis (Burm.f.) Underw. (コシダ)
D. laevissimum (H. Christ) Nakai (カネコシダ)
Cf. Diplopterygium glaucum (Gleicheniaceae)
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[1-3] in the campus of Ryukoku University (Ryukoku Forest), Otsu City, eastern Japan, on March 17 2012. [4] on a trail to go Mount Yatsu near Shizuoka Gokoku Shrine*, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 5 2013. (*: Shinto shrines designated as places of worship for those who died in the war) [5] on Mount Misen (弥山, 535 m elevation), Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 16 2014.