Morphological Variation of Three Endemic Species of Callicarpa (Verbenaceae) in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

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• A total of 22 population samples of three endemic species of Callicarpa in the Bonin Islands (the Chichijima Islands and the Hahajima Islands) were examined for nine leaf characters to clarify the present status of morphological variations. Results showed that three species are distinctly recognizable and have their own patterns of variation. Callicarpa glabra and C. nishimurae were relatively less variable and adapted to limited habitats only in the Chichijima Islands. Thus these species were regarded as specialized species. C. subpubescens was more variable than the above two species and distributed widely in both of the two island groups. This species was morphologically differentiated between the two island groups. In the Hahajima Islands where two other species were not distributed, several plants of C. subpubescens were similar to C. glabra. The populations of C. subpubescens in the Hahajima Islands were inter-populationally more variable than those in the Chichijima Islands. C. subpubescens occupied various habitats within the Bonin Islands and was regarded as a diversified species.

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著者

• Kawakubo Nobumitsu

  Makino Herbarium Faculty Of Science Tokyo Metropolitan University

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• Morphological Variation of Three Endemic Species of Callicarpa (Verbenaceae) in the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands

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