Trillium camschatcense

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|genus = Trillium

|species = camschatcense

|authority = Ker Gawl.

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  • Trillium kamtschaticum Pall. ex Pursh
  • Trillium kamtschatikum Ledeb.
  • Trillium pallasii Hultén

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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).[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=290545 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families][https://web.archive.org/web/20150923005040/http://www.amjbot.org/content/95/4/482.full 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 ][https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/14313#page/172/mode/1up Ker Gawler, John Bellenden 1805. Curtis's botanical magazine volume 22, chapter 855] in notes under description of T. erythrocarpum

Trillium camschatcense, a perennial herbaceous plant, is {{convert|30|to|50|cm|in|round=0.5|abbr=on}} tall with white flowers.{{cite journal |last1=Fukuda |first1=Ichiro |last2=Freeman |first2=John D. |last3=Itou |first3=Masakazu |title=Trillium channellii, sp. nov. (Trilliaceae), in Japan, and T. camschatcense Ker Gawler, Correct Name for the Asiatic diploid Trillium |journal=Novon |date=1996 |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=164–171 |doi=10.2307/3391914 |jstor=3391914 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/661889}} The plant grows in richly wooded areas, often on steep hillsides.{{eFloras |2 |200027980 |Trillium camschatcense |volume=24}}

References

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  • Case, Frederick W. and Case, Roberta B. (1997) Trilliums. {{ISBN|0-88192-374-5}}