Viola hultenii : {Japanese Name : Tishima Usuba Sumire}
Viola hultenii Viola hultenii
Gunma / June 18, 2005

Viola hultenii Viola hultenii Viola hultenii
Nagano / June 10, 2023
The flowers are difficult to photograph because they grow naturally in marshy places, and the plants are short and bloom downward.
It's a flower in the end of life, but it's easy to understand.
Section Plagiostigma Gordon
Scientific Name Type species Viola hultenii W. Becker : {Tishima Usuba Sumire}> Published in: Ark. Bot. 22A(3):4. (1928)
Variety
Form
Synonym Viola blandaeformis var. pilosa Hara
Origin
Common names
Stalk Form The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock.
Habitat Highland rainfowl, grow spontaneously on the sphagnum floor. Conifer forest zone in Hokkaido, in sub-alpine wetlands in the Chubu region etc.
Distribution Japan domestic Scattered from Hokkaido to the Chubu region in Japan.
Japan overseas Kamchatka, Kurile Islands, Sakhalin.
Others
Flower Shape Small flower (a corolla is about 12mm).
Color White, purple-striate on low petal.
Spur
Season Late.
Stigma
Aromatic
Others
Leaf Shape Round leaf.
Color Both surfaces are light green.
Others The jagged-leaf doesn't lie on top of one another. Short hairs sparsely on the surface.
Seed Shape
Color Light brown, dark brown when fully ripe.
Others
Characteristics of roots
Endangered Information Ministry of the Environment【EndangeredII(VU)】、Iwate:EndangeredⅠ, Niigataa:EndangeredⅡ, Gunma:EndangeredⅡ, Totigi:Nearly endangered, Nagano:EndangeredⅠ
Type Specimen Kamchatka eastern and southern area
Chromosome Number 2n=24
Reference Information
Others The indefinite bud is put out from the underground stem and it proliferates.
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Viola hultenii
Nagano / June 18, 2022

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