Section | Patellares (Boissier) Nakai | |
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Scientific Name | Type species | VViola variegataFischer ex DC.: (cf. Fisch. ex Gingins, Fisch. ex Link): {Fuiri Genji Sumire} |
Variety | Viola variegata var. nipponica Makino : {Genji Sumire} Published in:B. M. T. 16: 159 (1902) | |
Form | ||
Synonym |
Viola variegata f. nipponica (Makino) F.Maek.
Viola umemurae Makino : {Iyo Sumire} Published in:B. M. T. 16: 131 (1902)
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Origin |
variegata : Mottled, Variegated,
nipponica : Japanese, umemurae : Originated from a person's name: Jintaro Umemura, (1862-1946) Herbalist, dedicated by T, Makino. |
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Common names | 【Chinease】班葉菫菜、斑叶菫菜、【Korean】알록제비꽃、【English】Cyclamen leaf Violet, Variegated leaf Violet | |
Stalk Form | The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock. | |
Habitat | It grows wild in the forest which it is sunny and is dried. It is many on the slope where the fallen leaf piled up. | |
Distribution | Japan domestic | There are a few individuals, distributed segregatively in Japan. Northern and central of Honshu (=Main Island), okayama, and Ehime. |
Japan overseas | Viola variegata var. variegata is distributed in China and Korean Peninsula, not in Japan. The leaves look like Cyclamen. | |
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Flower | Shape | Medium (a corolla is about 15 - 20mm across). |
Color | Pale reddish purple, purple-striate on low petal. The color of the back is darker. | |
Spur | 7 - 8mm long. | |
Season | Early. | |
Stigma | Inverted triangle. | |
Aromatic | Fragrant. | |
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Leaf | Shape | Blade orbicular-cordate, 20 - 50mm long, 15 - 30mm wide. |
Color | Upper surface is deep green, the other is usually purplish. | |
Others | Usually with dense minute hairs. | |
Seed | Shape | Fallen egg shape. Medium grain. |
Color | Light brown close to ivory. | |
Others | Capsule is reddish brown with white fine hairs. | |
Characteristics of roots | White mustache root. | |
Endangered Information | Aomori:Near endangered, Akita:EndangeredⅠ, Iwate:EndangeredⅡ, Totigi:Near endangered, Gunma:EndangeredⅡ, Saitama:EndangeredⅠ, Tokyo:EndangeredⅠ, Kanagawa:EndangeredⅠ, Hiroshima:EndangeredⅡ, Ehime:EndangeredⅠ | |
Type Specimen |
Viola variegata var. nipponica: Arasumura in Nagano by Tanaka May. 24, 1902
Viola Umemurae:Kosioreyama in Ehime by Umemura April 17, 1898 [Makino Herbarium (MAK), Tokyo Metropolitan University]
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Chromosome Number | 2n=24 (Rudyka, E. G., 1990, Botanicheskii Žhurnal) | |
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