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Boraginaceae

Mertensia

Mertensia pterocarpa (Turcz.) Tatew. & Ohwi

First published in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 2: 25 (1933)

This species is accepted

The native range of this species is Kuril Islands to N. Japan. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.

Taxonomy

Distribution
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Other data

Native to:

Japan, Kuril Is.

Homotypic Synonyms

Steenhammera pterocarpa Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Imp. Naturalistes Moscou 14: 245 (1840)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Mertensia pterocarpa var. yezoensis Tatew. & Ohwi in Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 2: 106 (1933)
Mertensia pterocarpa f. yoshimurae T.Fukuda & Hideki Takah. in J. Jap. Bot. 77: 168 (2002)

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Barkalov, V.Y. (ed.) (1991). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 5: 1-388. Nauka, Leningrad.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Barkalov, V.Y. (ed.) (1991). Plantae Vasculares Orientalis Extremi Sovietici 5: 1-388. Nauka, Leningrad.
Iwatsuki, K., Yamazaki, T., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. (eds.) (1993). Flora of Japan IIIa: 1-482. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0