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838. ACONITUM JAPONICUM subsp. JAPONICUM
Author(s) -
Kadota Yuichi
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
curtis's botanical magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1467-8748
pISSN - 1355-4905
DOI - 10.1111/curt.12150
Subject(s) - aconitum , range (aeronautics) , biology , botany , geography , materials science , alkaloid , composite material
Summary The name Aconitum japonicum Thunb. subsp. japonicum (syn. A. japonicum var. montanum Nakai; Japanese name, Yama‐torikabuto) is well known to botanists and horticulturists as a representative of Japanese monkshoods and is occasionally found even in the suburbs of Tokyo. However, this aconite is restricted to the mountains on the Pacific Ocean side of Honshu Island, central Japan. Although the geographical range of A. japonicum is rather narrow, it shows a wide range of morphological variation as a member of a tetraploid species group (2n = 4x = 32).