Japanese name: オヤマリンドウ Scientific name:Gentiana makinoi
[Overview]
A perennial 20–50 cm tall, found in grasslands and similar places in the subalpine zone.
It has a thick rhizome underground.
Several stems stand upright in a clump.
Leaves are simple and opposite, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 3–6 cm long, with three conspicuous veins.
The leaves on the lower part of the stem form a short sheath.
One to seven flowers are borne facing upward in the leaf axils at the stem tip.
The corolla is tubular-bell-shaped, 2–3 cm long, 5-lobed at the tip, and deep purple.
Appendages develop between the corolla lobes.
Both the corolla lobes and the appendages stand upright and do not open fully.
The fruit is a capsule.
