Prunus jamasakura

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Japanese mountain cherry[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species:
P. jamasakura
Binomial name
Prunus jamasakura

The Japanese mountain cherry (Prunus jamasakura) is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae that is endemic to Japan.[3]

Taxonomy[edit]

The species was first given a binomial by Philipp Franz von Siebold in 1830,[4][5]: 148  the specific epithet relating to the Japanese common name, Yama-zakura (ヤマザクラ).[2] While Siebold alludes to the uses to which the tree has traditionally been put—its wood in woodblock printing, its bark in a range of crafts (kabazaiku), its fruit for consumption[4][note 1]—there is no description, diagnosis, or reference to previous literature containing such, no illustration, and no mention of a type specimen,[5]: 148  i.e., Siebold's Prunus jamasakura is a nomen nudum[5]: 150  or seminudum.[6]: 278  Tomitaro Makino is credited with the first formal description of the taxon, in 1908, as Prunus pseudocerasus var. jamasakura.[7]: 93  Elevated to species rank (Prunus jamasakura) by Gen-ichi Koidzumi in 1911,[8]: 184  in 1992 Hideaki Ohba moved the mountain cherry to the genus Cerasus,[6]: 278  a treatment still followed by a number of authorities.[9][10][11]

Two varieties are recognized:[3]

Description[edit]

Prunus jamasakura is a deciduous tree that grows to a height of 20–25 metres (66–82 ft).[9][10][13] Koidzumi's description is as follows: "a glabrous tree, more rarely pubescent. Elliptic leaves suddenly acuminate, sharply setaceo-serrated. Petioles mostly towards the apex, with two glands. Coetaneous flowers very rarely subprecocious, corymbose or fascicled. Glabrous style."[8]: 185 [note 2]

Distribution[edit]

The species occurs in the low mountains and secondary forests of Japan, from the Kantō region of Honshū to Shikoku and Kyūshū.[2][13]

Conservation status[edit]

Prunus jamasakura is classed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, although the 2021 assessment notes a decline in the area and quality of its habitat.[2]

See also[edit]

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Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Lignum exclusive in usum xylographorum versum, cortex pro diversis utensilibus ac fructus a pueris colliguntur"
  2. ^ "Arbor glaber rarius pubescens. Folia elliptica subito acuminata, argute setaceo-serrulata. Petioli plerumque versus apicem glandulis duobus. Flores coaetanei rarissime subprecociores, corymbosi vel fasciculati. Stylus glaber."

References[edit]

  1. ^ Xian-Gui Yi; Jie Chen; Meng Li; Hong Zhu; Zhong-Shuai Sun; Toshio Katsuki; Xian-Rong Wang (2020) [Published online 13 December 2019]. "Complete chloroplast genome of the wild Japanese Mountain cherry (Prunus jamasakura, Rosaceae)". Mitochondrial DNA B Resources. 5 (1): 290–291. doi:10.1080/23802359.2019.1699463. PMID 33366524.
  2. ^ a b c d Oldfield, S. (2021). "Prunus jamasakura". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T173917565A173917817. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T173917565A173917817.en.
  3. ^ a b c "Prunus jamasakura (Makino) Siebold ex Koidz." Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b von Siebold, Philipp Franz (1830). "Synopsis Plantarum Oeconomicarum universi regni Japonici". Verhandelingen van het Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen (in Latin). 12: 68.
  5. ^ a b c Ohba, Hideaki; Akiyama, Shinobu (22 November 2019). "The Lectotypification of Prunus jamasakura and Allied Native Species of Cerasus sect. Sargentiella in Japan (Rosaceae—Prunoideae)". Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science. Series B (Botany). 45 (4). National Museum of Nature and Science: 147–164.
  6. ^ a b Ohba, Hideaki (1992). "Japanese Cherry Trees under the Genus Cerasus (Rosaceae)". The Journal of Japanese Botany. 67 (5): 276–281. doi:10.51033/jjapbot.67_5_8728.
  7. ^ Makino, T. (1908). "Observations on the Flora of Japan. (Continued from p. 72.)". The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo). 22 (257): 93–102. doi:10.15281/jplantres1887.22.257_93.
  8. ^ a b Koidzumi, G. (1911). "Notes on Japanese Rosaceae. III". The Botanical Magazine (Tokyo). 25 (295): 183–188. doi:10.15281/jplantres1887.25.295_183.
  9. ^ a b Kunio, Kunio; Boufford, David Edward; Ohba, Hideaki, eds. (2001). Flora of Japan. Volume IIb: Angiospermae, Dicotyledoneae, Archichlamydeae(b). Tokyo: Kodansha. p. 139–140. ISBN 4-06-154605-8.
  10. ^ a b Ohashi, Hiroyoshi; Kadota, Yuichi; Murata, Jin; Yonekura, Koji, eds. (2016). 日本の野生植物 第３巻 バラ科—センダン科 [Wild Flowers of Japan. vol. 3: Rosaceae—Meliaceae] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Heibonsha. pp. 67–68, pl. 48, 49. ISBN 978-4-582-53533-4.
  11. ^ Yonekura, Koji; Kajita, Tadashi. 植物和名ー学名インデックス [YList] (in Japanese).
  12. ^ Ohwi, J. (1953). "日本植物誌"中に揭出せる植物の新学名及新組合せ [New Scientific Names and New Combinations of Plants that can be found in "Flora of Japan"]. Bulletin of the National Science Museum (in Japanese). 33. National Science Museum: 66–90. doi:10.11501/2365780.
  13. ^ a b Ohwi, Jisaburo (1965). Flora of Japan (in English). A combined, much revised, and extended translation by the author of his 日本植物誌 FLORA OF JAPAN (1953) and 日本植物誌シダ篇 FLORA OF JAPAN—PTERIDOPHYTA (1957). Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution. p. 544.
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