Daphne miyabeana

Daphne miyabeana is a species of flowering plant in the family Thymelaeaceae.[1] It is a small, rare evergreen shrub found in rocky areas in the high mountains of Hokkaido and Honshu, Japan. Its leaves are 5โ€“10 cm long by 1โ€“2.5 cm wide, glabrous and dark green above, with a short petiole (stalk). The white flowers are arranged in heads at the end of the current year's growth. Like all daphnes, the flowers have no petals, only petal-like sepals. The sepals form a tube that is 5โ€“6 mm long with spreading lobes. The berries are about 8 mm across and are vermilion when ripe.[2]

Daphne miyabeana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Thymelaeaceae
Genus: Daphne
Species:
D. miyabeana
Binomial name
Daphne miyabeana
Makino[1]

References

  1. "Daphne miyabeana", The Plant List, retrieved 2017-11-21
  2. Ohwi, Jisaburo (1965), Meyer, Frederick G. & Walker, Egbert H. (eds.), Flora of Japan (in English), Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, p. 644, ISBN 978-0-87474-708-9, retrieved 2017-11-21


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