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Lysimachia tanakae

Lysimachia tanakae ("Miyamakonasubi")

Japanese name: ミヤマコナスビ (深山小茄子)
Scientific name: Lysimachia tanakae

Lysimachia tanakae

[Overview]
A perennial found in the mountains.
It has creeping underground stems.
The stems are long, creep along the ground, and are covered with brownish soft hairs.
Leaves are simple and opposite, ovate-round, 1–2 cm in both length and width, with a slightly pointed or rounded tip.
The leaves have black glandular dots and glandular streaks.
The petiole is 0.5–1.5 cm long.
Young leaves are covered with soft hairs.
The flowers are solitary in the leaf axils, yellow, 1–1.5 cm across; the corolla is 5-lobed and the lobes are lanceolate-oblong.
The calyx lobes are oblanceolate with rounded tips.
The flower stalk is 1.5–2.5 cm long.
The fruit is a spherical capsule.

Details

Names
Japanese: ミヤマコナスビ(深山小茄子)
Life form
Perennial
Habit
Terrestrial
Similar plants
Flowering season
June, July
Distribution or origin
Japan (Honshu: Kii Peninsula, Shikoku, central Kyushu)
Leaf shape
Simple leaf (unlobed)
Leaf arrangement
Opposite
Leaf margin
Entire
Inflorescence
Solitary
Flower color
Yellow
Flower diameter
10–15
Leaf color
Green
Designated plants
Endemic to Japan

Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.

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