Nepalese browntop

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Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

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Microstegium Nees (アシボソ) in Japan

M. vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus

Ashiboso (アシボソ, 脚細, s.l.), Nepalese browntop
Life form: weedy, annual grass
Distribution: widespread in eastern Asia, i.e., India - China - Korea - Japan (south to southwestern Hokkaido) - Indonesia
Habitat: mesic forest edges, and others (occasionally on and around crop fields and roadsides)

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Synonyms:

Eulalia viminea (Trin.) Kuntze var. polystachya (Franch. et Sav.) T.Koyama
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus var. polystachyum (Franch. et Sav.) Ohwi
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus var. imberbe (Nees ex Steud.) Honda
Microstegium vimineum (Trin.) A. Camus f. polystachyum (Franch. et Sav.) Hiyama
Microstegium nodosum (Kom.) Tzvelev
Microstegium dilatatum Koidz.

f. willdenowianum (Nees) Osada (ヒメアシボソ), without arista
f. vimineum (アシボソ, s.s.)

Microstegium vimineum in Hokkaido

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[1-3] at the crane site of Tomakomai Experimental forest. [1-3] on September 17 2015. [4-6] on September 15 2016.
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[7-9] near a small crater that is still hot in the Nishiyama Craters on Mount Usu (flora) on July 26 and 27 2017.