Family | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily | Vanilloideae |
Tribe | Pogoniinae |
Scientific name | Pogonia minor (Makino) Makino |
Synonyms | Pogonia japonica Reichenbach f. var. minor Makino; Pogonia minor (Makino) Makino forma pallescens (Nakai) Okuyama; Pogonia minor (Makino) Makino var. pallescens Nakai |
Common name | (Japanese common name) yama-toki-sou (ヤマトキソウ, 山朱鷺草 [meaning: mountain Japanese crested ibis weed]) |
(Chinese common name) xiao zhu lan (小朱兰) | |
(English common name) none | |
Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu |
(Other nations) Korea, China, Taiwan | |
Chromosomal number | 2n=18 |
Description | Plants electing 10-25cm tall. Leaves 3-7cm long, 4-12mm wide. Flowers pale purple, pink or white, sepals 1-1.5cm long, flowering in June to August. Terrestrial. Perennial plants. |
Habitat | Mountane open field or swamp. |
Reference | Pogonia minor (Makino) Makino |
Pogonia minor (Makino) Makino | |
Karyotype in Pogonia japonica (Orchidaceae) in Khasan District, Primorye Territory, Russia | |
Comparisons with chromosome complements at mitotic metaphase in two artificial reciprocal hybrids between Pogonia minor and Pogonia japonica and between Pogonia minor and Pogonia ophioglossoides(Abstracts of the International Conference on "Evolutionary Botany of Certain Plant-Groups of the East Eurasian Floristic Element Related to Japanese Flora on the Basis of Chromosomes") | |
Note | Rare species |
June 2010 at my home |
June 2010 at my home |
June 2010 at my home |