(First upload on March 5 2017. Last on February 3 2024) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Psilotum L. (マツバラン)Matsubaran (マツバラン, 松葉蘭), whisk fern, or skeleton fork fernHoukiran (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 |
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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. [5/6] in the greenhouse of Hokkaido University Botanic Garden on September 30 2023.