Sugamo - Sugamo

Japanese: スガモ - すがも
Sugamo - Sugamo

A perennial herb of the Zostera family (APG classification: Zostera family). It grows in the sea on rocky coastal areas. It grows in colonies, spreading out on thick creeping stems up to 4-5 meters long. Old yellowish-brown leaf fibers remain at the base of the stem. At each node, two strong roots about 4 cm long are attached to the rocks. The leaves are linear, alternate in two rows, 1-1.5 meters long and 3-5 mm wide, with an open leaf sheath 18-26 cm long at the base, rounded at the tip, slightly serrated at the upper edge, and five parallel veins. It flowers in March-April on a spadix. Dioecious. The spadix is ​​fused to the bracts and enclosed in an open leaf sheath with a thin blade at the end, is broadly linear and about 4 cm long. The male inflorescence is arranged in two rows of male flowers consisting of only sessile stamens divided into two locules. The female inflorescence consists of one pseudoaneury and one pistil, arranged in two rows. The fruit is yellowish brown, oblate-cordate-shaped, about 4 mm long, and contains one spherical seed. The fruit turns black when ripe. It is distributed in Honshu, from Inubosaki in Chiba Prefecture and north of Oga Peninsula in Akita Prefecture, Hokkaido, the Kuril Islands, Sakhalin, northern China, and the Korean Peninsula.

[Otaki Sueo October 19, 2018]

Sugamo
It takes root firmly in the reefs of the coast. The length of the leaves is 1 to 1.5 m. © Underwater Fort Enterprise, Isamu Soyama ">

Sugamo


Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

アマモ科(APG分類:アマモ科)の多年草。海岸の岩礁地帯の海中に生える。長さ4~5メートルになる太い匍匐(ほふく)茎を伸ばして広がり群生する。茎の基部には黄褐色の古い葉の繊維が残る。節ごとに長さ4センチメートルほどのじょうぶな2本の根を出して岩に固着する。葉は線形で2列互生し、長さ1~1.5メートル、幅3~5ミリメートル、基部に長さ18~26センチメートルの開いた葉鞘(ようしょう)があり、先は円く、上縁に微鋸歯(きょし)があり、5本の平行脈がある。花期は3~4月、肉穂花序につく。雌雄異株。肉穂花序は包葉と合着し、先に細い葉身がある開いた葉鞘に包まれ、広線形で長さ約4センチメートル。雄花序は2個の花室に分かれた無柄の雄しべのみからなる雄花が2列に並ぶ。雌花序は1個の仮雄花と1個の雌しべからなる花が2列に並ぶ。果実は黄褐色、倒心臓状矢じり形で長さ約4ミリメートル、球形の1個の種子がある。果実は熟すと黒色となる。本州の千葉県犬吠埼(いぬぼうさき)と秋田県男鹿(おが)半島以北、北海道、千島、樺太(からふと)、中国北部、朝鮮半島に分布する。

[大滝末男 2018年10月19日]

スガモ
海岸の岩礁にしっかりと根を張る。葉の長さは1~1.5m©水中フォート・エンタープライズ 楚山いさむ">

スガモ


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