Family | Botrychiaceae (also placed in Ophioglossaceae) |
Scientific name | Botrychium nipponicum Makino |
Synonyms | Sceptridium nipponicum (Makino) Holub; Sceptridium ternatum (Thunberg) Lyon var. nipponicum (Makino) M. Nishida |
Common name | (Japanese common name) aka-hana-warabi (アカハナワラビ, 赤花蕨 [meaning: red leaves flowering warabi (warabi = Pteridium aquilinum)]) |
(English common name) none | |
Distribution | (Japan) Honshu (south of Miyagi Prefecture), Shikoku, Kyushu |
(Other nations) Korea, China | |
Habitat | Mountane forest |
Chromosomal number | n=45 (2x) |
Description | Leaves vegetative leaf pinnately trifoliolate, ca. 10cm long and ca. 10cm wide (green in Summer and Autumn, red in Winter), sporophyll leaf 20-50cm tall. Terrestrial. Perennial plants. |
Reference | Botrychium nipponicum |
Botrychium nipponicum Makino | |
Note | Reratively rare. |
September 2008 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
September 2008 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
September 2008 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
December 2008 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |