Viola violacea : {Japanese Name : Shihai Sumire}
Viola violacea Viola violacea
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Viola violacea
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Section Patellares (Boissier) Nakai
Scientific Name Type species Viola violacea Makino : {Shihai Sumire} Published in: Ill. Fl. Jap. 1: t. 67. (1891)
Form
Viola violacea f. pictifolia Honda : {Konpira Sumire}
Viola violacea f. albida (Nakai) F.Maek. : {irobana Shihai Sumire}
Viola violacea f. versicolor E.Hama : {Fuiri Shihai Sumire} Published in: J. Jap. Bot., 51(11): 341. (1976)
Viola violacea f. concolor Nakash. : {Midori Shihai Sumire}
Variety
Viola violacea var. makinoi (Boiss.) Hiyama ex F.Maek. : {Makino Sumire}
Viola violacea var. makinoi f. variegata E.Hama : {Fuiri Makino Sumire}
Viola violacea var. tanakaeana (Makino) Hashimoto : {Sinano Sumire}
Viola violacea var. tanakaeana f. okuharae E.Hama : {Fuiri Sinano Sumire}
Synonym
Viola makinoi H.Boissieu Published in: Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 47: 320. (1900)
Viola obtusosagitta Koidz. Published in: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 39:29. (1925)
Viola sacraricola Nakai Published in: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42:561. (1928)
Viola tanakaeana Makino Published in: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 17:86. (1903)
Origin violacea : Purple-re
Common names 【Chinese】紫背堇菜, 【Korean】자주잎제비꽃
Stalk Form The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock.
Habitat Sunny and dry wood.
Distribution Japan domestic It is distributed over Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. Although it is rare at the East Japan, there are many individuals on the western part of Japan.
Japan overseas
Others
Flower Shape Middle size.
Color From light purple to purplish red. It is often that a flower stalk is red.
Spur It has a long cylindrical shape, and the tip is often bent upward. The color is white to purple.
Season Normal.
Stigma Inverted triangle.
Aromatic Fragrance.
Others The calyx is lanceolate.
Leaf Shape A leaf is a little thick and triangle-shaped narrow egg type (long ovoid, a lancet arch). The base of a leaf is cardiac.
Color Generally the surface is green, and the back side is purple-red. White spots are seen rarely.
Others Hairless.
Seed Shape
Color
Others An oblate shape close to a sphere.
Characteristics of roots
Endangered Information Type species:Miyagi:ThreatenedⅡ, Yamagata:ThreatenedⅡ, Niigata:Local populations, Gunma:ThreatenedⅠ, Tokyo:Near Threatened, Kagoshima:ThreatenedⅡ
var. tanakaeana:Ngano:ThreatenedⅠ
Type Specimen Echigo, Izu, Omi, Daiwa, Kii, Awa, Tosa.
Chromosome Number 2n=24
Reference Information
Others The distribution of the variety is different from Viola violacea.

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