Chrysosplenium tosaense

Chrysosplenium tosaense (タチネコノメソウ, Tachinekonomesō) is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae that is endemic to Japan.[1][2][3]

Chrysosplenium tosaense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Saxifragaceae
Genus: Chrysosplenium
Species:
C. tosaense
Binomial name
Chrysosplenium tosaense
(Makino) Makino ex Sutô[1][2]
Synonyms

Chrysosplenium flagelliferum var. tosaense[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described, as Chrysosplenium flagelliferum var. tosaense, by Japanese botanist Makino Tomitarō in 1901 (his 1892 mention of Chrysosplenium tosaense is a nomen nudum).[1][2][4] In 1935, Sutō Chiharu elevated the variety to species rank.[2] The specific epithet relates to the type locality, Nanokawa in Kōchi Prefecture (formerly Tosa Province).[1]

Description

Chrysosplenium tosaense grows to a height of 5–17 centimetres (2.0–6.7 in) and flowers from April to May.[1]

Distribution

Chrysosplenium tosaense is endemic to Japan, where it occurs from the Kantō region to the Chūgoku region of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū.[2][3]

References

  1. Makino, T. (1901). "Observations on the Flora of Japan". The Botanical Magazine. 15: 32. ISSN 0006-808X.
  2. Sutô Tiharu 須藤千春 (1935). 日本産猫自草屬要記(其ー) [Diagnoses breves Chrysospleniorum Japonicarum (I)] (PDF). Journal of Japanese Botany (in Japanese). 11 (6): 391–403 (397 f.). ISSN 0022-2062.
  3. Katō, M. [in Japanese]; Ebihara, A. [in Japanese] (March 2011). 日本の固有植物 [Endemic Plants of Japan] (in Japanese). Tokai University Press. pp. 72, 237, 426. ISBN 978-4-486-01897-1.
  4. Makino, T. (1892). "Notes on Japanese Plants XV". The Botanical Magazine. 6: 52. ISSN 0006-808X.
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