Family | Asteraceae (alt. Compositae) |
Scientific name | Ainsliaea macroclinidioides Hayata var. okinawensis (Hayata) Kitamura |
Synonyms | Ainsliaea okinawensis Hayata |
Common name | (Japanese common name) okinawa-teishou-sou (オキナワテイショウソウ, 沖縄テイショウ草 or 丸葉禎祥草 [meaning: Okinawa teishou weed (meaning of teishou is unknown)]); okinawa-haguma (オキナワハグマ, 沖縄白熊 [meaning: Okinawa haguma (haguma = Bos grunniens' wool)]) |
(English common name) none | |
Distribution | (Japan) Okinawa |
(Other nations) China | |
Habitat | Mountane wet forest |
Chromosomal number | unknown |
Description | Plants electing ca. 35-75cm tall. Leaves 6-13cm long. Flowers white corollas ca. 11mm long, flowering in November to December. Perennial plants. |
Reference | Ainsliaea macroclinidioides var. okinawaensis Kitam. |
Phylogeny and Biogeography of the Genus Ainsliaea (Asteraceae) in the Sino-Japanese Region based on Nuclear rDNA and Plastid DNA Sequence Data | |
Isolation and characterization of microsatellite loci in Ainsliaea faurieana (Asteraceae), an endemic plant species on Yakushima Island, Japan, and cross-species amplification in closely related taxa | |
Note | Rare species. |
November 2009 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
November 2009 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
November 2009 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |
November 2009 at Tsukuba Botanical Garden |