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Barnardia japonica (Thunb.) Schult. & Schult. fil.

Description

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Bulb ovoid to globose, 2--5 × 1--3 cm; tunic blackish brown. Leaves usually 4 or 5, (10--)15--40 cm × 2--9 mm, soft, smooth. Scape longer than leaves. Raceme (2--)7--20 cm, densely many flowered; bracts narrowly lanceolate. Pedicels 5--12 mm. Perianth segments rose purple, pink, or white, obovate, elliptic, or narrowly elliptic, 2.5--4 × ca. 1.2 mm, slightly connate and discoid at base. Stamens 2--3.5 mm; filaments sublanceolate, papillose-puberulent or glabrous. Ovary 1.5--2 mm, papillose-puberulent; ovules 1 or 2 per locule. Style 1--1.3 mm. Capsule subobovoid, 3--6 × 2--4 mm. Seeds 1--3, 2.5--5 mm. Fl. and fr. Jul--Nov. 2 n = 16, 18, 26, 27, 34*, 35, 36, 43.
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Flora of China Vol. 24: 203 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shanxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan [Japan (including Ryukyu Islands), Korea, E Russia].
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Habitat

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Forest margins, hillsides, open slopes, grasslands; near sea level to 2600 m.
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Synonym

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Ornithogalum japonicum Thunberg in Murray, Syst. Veg., ed. 14, 328. 1784; Barnardia alboviridis (Handel-Mazzetti) Speta; B. bispatha (Handel-Mazzetti) Speta; B. borealijaponica M. Kikuchi) Speta; B. pulchella (Kitagawa) Speta; B. scilloides Lindley; B. sinensis (Loureiro) Speta; O. sinense Loureiro; Scilla alboviridis Handel-Mazzetti; S. bispatha Handel-Mazzetti; S. borealijaponica M. Kikuchi; S. chinensis Bentham, nom. illeg. (included B. scilloides); S. chinensis var. mounsei H. Léveillé; S. japonica Baker (1873), not Thunberg (1784); S. scilloides (Lindley) Druce; S. scilloides f. albida Y. N. Lee; S. scilloides var. alboviridis (Handel-Mazzetti) F. T. Wang & Y. C. Tang; S. scilloides var. mounsei (H. Léveillé) McKean; S. scilloides var. pulchella (Kitagawa) Kitagawa; S. sinensis Merrill (1919), not S. chinensis Bentham (1861); S. sinensis var. pulchella (Kitagawa) Kitagawa; S. thunbergii Miyabe & Kudô; S. thunbergii var. pulchella Kitagawa.
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Barnardia japonica

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Barnardia japonica, the Japanese jacinth, is a bulbous flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae).[1] It is one of the two species of the genus Barnardia, found in east China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan[2] and East Russia.

Description

The plant bears a terminal raceme of pink small flowers. It is said to resemble a fox's tail. The shape of the plant is elegant. Its habitats include open slopes and forest margins.[3]

Systematics and taxonomy

The genus Barnardia was created by John Lindley in 1826 together with the single species B. scilloides. However, this species had already been described as Ornithogalum japonicum by Carl Peter Thunberg in 1784, so that it is now called B. japonica.[2]

The plant forms a genetic complex with two genome types, noted A and B, and diploid, allo-triploid and aneuploid specimens in natural populations.[4][5]

Natural occurrences

In China (Chinese name:棉棗兒 or 绵枣儿), it can be found in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shanxi, Sichuan and Yunnan.[6]

In Northern Taiwan, the plant occupies habitats under 700 meters high in a small amount. From July to August, it can be easily spotted on the open hillsides or fields along the roads in Dongyin and Siyin Island. It also can be found in Nangan, but the majority is in Dongyin and Siyin. It has been listed as a candidate for 'Township Flower' in Dongyin.

In Russia, it is found around Vladivostok, though it is probably extinct there (according to the Red Data Book of Russia).

Cultivation

Barnardia japonica is cultivated as an ornamental bulb. In a temperate climate it requires a sunny position where it flowers in the autumn. As well as the normal pink-flowered form, a white form (Scilla scilloides var. albo-viridis) is in cultivation.[7]

Uses

The leaves and roots are edible. The bulbs can be used in medicine.

Chemistry

The homoisoflavones scillavones A and B can be isolated from the bulbs of B japonica.[8]

The bulb also contains eucosterol glycosides showing anti-tumor activities.[9]

References

  1. ^ Stevens, P.F. (2001–2012), Angiosperm Phylogeny Website: Asparagales: Scilloideae, retrieved 2013-03-28
  2. ^ a b "Barnardia", World Checklist of Selected Plant Families, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2013-03-28
  3. ^ "Barnardia japonica in Flora of China @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  4. ^ Cytogenetics of theScilla scilloides complex. Hiroto Araki, Saburo Hidaka and Seishi Takahashi, The botanical magazine = Shokubutsu-gaku-zasshi, June 1976, Volume 89, Issue 2, pages 83-91, doi:10.1007/BF02491111
  5. ^ Physical mapping by FISH and GISH of rDNA loci and discrimination of genomes A and B in Scilla scilloides complex distributed in Korea. Hae-Woon Choi, Jeong-Soon Kim, Sang-Hoon Lee and Jae-Wook Bang, Journal of Plant Biology, January 2008, volume 51, issue 6, doi:10.1007/BF03036061
  6. ^ efloras.org
  7. ^ Beckett, K., ed. (1994), Encyclopaedia of Alpines : Volume 2 (L–Z), Pershore, UK: AGS Publications, ISBN 978-0-900048-62-3, p. 1203
  8. ^ A new homostilbene and two new homoisoflavones from the bulbs of Scilla scilloides. Nishida Y, Eto M, Miyashita H, Ikeda T, Yamaguchi K, Yoshimitsu H, Nohara T and Ono M, Chem Pharm Bull, July 2008, volume56, issue 7, pages 1022-1025, PMID 18591825
  9. ^ Eucosterol Oligoglycosides Isolated from Scilla scilloides and Their Anti-tumor Activity. Sang-Myung Lee, Hyo-Kon Chun, Choong-Hwan Lee, Byung-Sun Min, Eun-Sook Lee and Yung-Hee Kho, doi:10.1248/cpb.50.1245

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Barnardia japonica: Brief Summary

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Barnardia japonica, the Japanese jacinth, is a bulbous flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae (also treated as the family Hyacinthaceae). It is one of the two species of the genus Barnardia, found in east China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and East Russia.

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