Viola mirabilis var. subglabra : {Japanese Name : Ibuki Sumire}
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / April 26, 2003
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / May 3, 2005 alt.=1,120m
Section Trigonocarpae Gordon
Subsection Mirabiles Nyman
Scientific Name Type species Viola mirabilis L. Published in: Sp. pl. 2:936. (1753)
Variety Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Ledebour : {Ibuki Sumire} Published in: Fl. Ross., 1: 251, 251, (1842)
Form Viola mirabilis var. subglabra f. seiichii E.Hama : {Sirobana Ibuki Sumire}
Synonym
Viola apetala Gilib.
Viola brachysepala Maxim. Published in: Prim. fl. amur. 50. (1859)
Viola subglabra (Ledeb.) Baikov
Origin mirabilisd :
Common names 【Chinese】奇异堇菜、【Korean】넓은잎제비꽃、【English】wonder violet
Stalk Form It is seen the 'stemless' at the flowering season. The stalk expands after the flower.
Habitat It grows wild under a little dark deciduous forest of the volcanic-ashes ground and the limestone ground.
Distribution Japan domestic It is restrictively distributed over the mountain in Hokkaido and Honshu isolatively.
Japan overseas It grows a lot wild in the Eurasian Continent. Europe, Russia, Mongolia, China, Korea.
Others
Flower Shape Middle size.
Color From light purple to white.
Spur Short and white. Turn a little upward.
Season Early flowering.
Stigma Key shape bent downward. hairless.
Aromatic
Others
Leaf Shape It is circular or heart form. It is comparatively big by the flowering season.
Color Both sides are soft green. There are few differences at the back and front. The back side is tinged with brown for the sprouting period.
Others
Seed Shape
Color
Others Many open flowers do not bear fruit.
Characteristics of roots
Endangered Information Gunma:Near Threatened, Tokyo:Extinct, Gifu:ThreatenedⅠ
Type Specimen Rosia (Mother class).
Chromosome Number 2n=20
(Stepanov, N. V. & E. N. Muratova. 1995. Chromosome Numbers of some taxa of higher plants of Krasnoyarsk territory. Bot. Žhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad))
Reference Information
Others The two stalk leaves are made opposite at the point of the stalk extended after the flower. The cleistogamous flower in which a flower bud is extremely short is pickled between them.

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / April 27, 2002

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Although it seems to be 'stemless' completely with a left photograph,

You can see that the stalk branches off with a right photograph.
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / April 12, 2009 alt.=800m

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / April 13, 2013 alt.=660-680m

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Gunma / April 24, 2010 alt.=620m

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Hiroshima / April 26, 2007 alt.=400m

 Scientific name 'mirabilis' has the meaning of 'being wonderful'. It is said that it was named from an image changing before and after a flower term.

The strange way of blooming

 The closing flower was due to be self-pollinated by itself. But it made the flower open.

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / May 5, 2001
2001/05/12


Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
At the time of a sprout, the end of the leaf is round and the back which looks a few is tinged with brown.
Yamanasi / April 3, 2010 alt.=1,000m

Viola mirabilis var. subglabra Viola mirabilis var. subglabra
Yamanasi / April 27, 2002 Nagano / June 2, 2012

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