(First upload on March 5 2017. Last on March 18 2017) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Matsubaran (マツバラン, 松葉蘭), whisk fern, or skeleton fork fern Houkiran (ホウキラン, 箒蘭) Lifeform: evergreen fern |
Distribution: widespread mostly in tropical and subtropical regions and partly in temperate regions, including the south to the Chubu District of Japan (the northern limit reported from Miyagi Prefecture)
Red Data Book: NT Habitat: on rockes and trees (epiphytes) |
Morphology:
Stem: dichotomous branching |
⇒ fern
P. nudum (L.) P. Beauv. (マツバラン) |
P. complanatum Sw. (ソウメングサ) |
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[1-3] grown in a greenhouse, CAST, HU, on January 24 2017. [4] at Okuma Garden in Waseda University, Tokyo, on March 15 2017.