Trillium camschatcense

Trillium camschatcense is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found in the moist forests of East Asia, in Japan (Hokkaido and northern Honshu), Korea, China (Jilin Province), and eastern Russia (Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Primorye, and Khabarovsk).[1][2][3]

Trillium camschatcense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Melanthiaceae
Genus: Trillium
Species:
T. camschatcense
Binomial name
Trillium camschatcense
Ker Gawl.
Synonyms
  • Trillium kamtschaticum Pall. ex Pursh
  • Trillium kamtschatikum Ledeb.
  • Trillium pallasii Hultén

Trillium camschatcense, a perennial herbaceous plant, is 30 to 50 cm (12 to 19.5 in) tall with white flowers.[4] The plant grows in richly wooded areas, often on steep hillsides.[5]

References
  1. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Shosei Kubota, Yoshiaki Kameyama, Akira S. Hirao and Masashi Ohara. 2008. Adaptive significance of self-fertilization in a hermaphroditic perennial, Trillium camschatcense (Melanthiaceae). doi: 10.3732/ajb.95.4.482 American Journal of Botany volume 95 number 4, pages 482-489
  3. Ker Gawler, John Bellenden 1805. Curtis's botanical magazine volume 22, chapter 855 in notes under description of T. erythrocarpum
  4. Fukuda, Ichiro; Freeman, John D.; Itou, Masakazu (1996). "Trillium channellii, sp. nov. (Trilliaceae), in Japan, and T. camschatcense Ker Gawler, Correct Name for the Asiatic diploid Trillium". Novon. 6 (2): 164–171. doi:10.2307/3391914. JSTOR 3391914.
  5. "Trillium camschatcense". Flora of China. Vol. 24 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  • Case, Frederick W. and Case, Roberta B. (1997) Trilliums. ISBN 0-88192-374-5


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