Ajania rupestris

Ajania rupestris
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Asterales
Family:	Asteraceae
Genus:	Ajania
Species:	A. rupestris
Binomial name
Ajania rupestris (Matsum. & Koidz.) Muldashev[1]
Synonyms
Chrysanthemum rupestre (basionym)[2] Dendranthema rupestre[3]

Ajania rupestris (イワインチン, iwa-inchin) is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae that is endemic to Honshū, Japan.^{[1]: 211 [4]}

Taxonomy

First described in 1910 by Japanese botanists Jinzō Matsumura and Gen-ichi Koidzumi, as Chrysanthemum rupestre,^[2]: 121 in 1978 Siro Kitamura (北村四郎) transferred the taxon from Chrysanthemum to Dendranthema, as Dendranthema rupestre,^[3]: 168 then in 1983 Albert Akramovich Muldashev transferred it to the genus Ajania, the new combination being Ajania rupestris.^[1]: 211

Distribution

Ajania rupestris occurs from southern Tōhoku to the Chūbu region.^[4]

References

1. Muldashev, A.A. (1983). Критический пересмотр рода Ajania (Asteraceae-Anthemideae) [A critical review of the genus Ajania (Asteraceae-Anthemideae)]. Botanicheskii Zhurnal (in Russian). 68 (2): 207–214. ISSN 0006-8136.
2. Matsumura, J.; Koidzumi, G. (1910). "Synopsis Composacearum Nikkoensis". The Botanical Magazine (in Latin). 24 (281): 115–123. ISSN 0006-808X.
3. Kitamura, S. (November 1978). "Dendranthema et Nipponanthemum". Acta Phytotaxonomica et Geobotanica (in Latin and Japanese). 29 (6): 165–170. doi:10.18942/bunruichiri.KJ00001078257. ISSN 0001-6799.
4. Katō, M. [in Japanese]; Ebihara, A. [in Japanese] (March 2011). 日本の固有植物 [Endemic Plants of Japan] (in Japanese). Tokai University Press. pp. 142, 257, 372. ISBN 978-4-486-01897-1.