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Trillium camschatcense
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Melanthiaceae
Genus: Trillium
Species:
T. camschatcense
Binomial name
Trillium camschatcense
Ker Gawl.
Synonyms
  • Trillium kamtschaticum Pall. ex Pursh
  • Trillium kamtschatikum Ledeb.
  • Trillium pallasii Hultén

Trillium camschatcense is a species of flowering plant in the family Melanthiaceae. It is found in the moist forests of East Asia, in Japan ( Hokkaido and northern Honshu), Korea, China ( Jilin Province), and eastern Russia ( Kamchatka, Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, Primorye, and Khabarovsk). [1] [2] [3]

Trillium camschatcense, a perennial herbaceous plant, is 30 to 50 cm (12 to 19.5 in) tall with white flowers. [4] The plant grows in richly wooded areas, often on steep hillsides. [5]

References

  1. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ^ Shosei Kubota, Yoshiaki Kameyama, Akira S. Hirao and Masashi Ohara. 2008. Adaptive significance of self-fertilization in a hermaphroditic perennial, Trillium camschatcense (Melanthiaceae). doi: 10.3732/ajb.95.4.482 American Journal of Botany volume 95 number 4, pages 482-489
  3. ^ Ker Gawler, John Bellenden 1805. Curtis's botanical magazine volume 22, chapter 855 in notes under description of T. erythrocarpum
  4. ^ Fukuda, Ichiro; Freeman, John D.; Itou, Masakazu (1996). "Trillium channellii, sp. nov. (Trilliaceae), in Japan, and T. camschatcense Ker Gawler, Correct Name for the Asiatic diploid Trillium". Novon. 6 (2): 164–171. doi: 10.2307/3391914. JSTOR  3391914.
  5. ^ "Trillium camschatcense". Flora of China. Vol. 24 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.

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