(First upload on November 8 2013. Last on October 15 2024) [ 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) > Rubiaceae (アカネ科) > Damnacanthus indicus
Damnacanthus C. F. Gaertn. (アリドオシ)Aridooshi (アリドオシ, 蟻通, s.l.), Indian damnacanthusLifeform: evergreen shrub < 60 cm in height Distribution: India - southeastern Asia - Korea - Japan (south to Kanto District) Habitat: floors of evergreen borad-leaved forest Length of spine ≥ leaf with 7-20 mm long Fruit: red → animal dispersal Chromosome number: 2n = 22 or 44 var. indicus (アリドオシ) Synonyms: Damnacanthus major Siebold et Zucc. var. parvifolius Koidz. |
f. microphyllus Makino (ヒメアリドオシ), dwarf form, well-branched stems, small leaves, Kii Peninsula - Kyushu Island Region var. intermedius Matsum. (ビシンジュズネノキ), few spinesvar. lancifolius Makino (ホソバオオアリドオシ): slim leaf, spine < 1/2 of leaf in length f. oblongus (Koidz.) Sugim. (コバンバニセジュズネノキ) var. major (Siebold et Zucc.) Makino (オオアリドオシ), spine < 1/2 of leaf in lengthvar. okinawensis Hatus. (ヤンバルアリドオシ/リュウキュウジュズネノキ), endemic to Ryukyu (syn. D. × okinawensis Hatus.) |
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[1/2] in Miyake Island (三宅島) on November 17 1988.
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near Sanjuu-san-hiro-no-taki Falls (三十三尋の壺) towards Hyakkennzan Canyons (百間山渓谷), Wakayama Prefecture, on June 26 2024.