| Section | Patellares (Boissier) Nakai | |
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| Scientific Name | Type species | Viola tashiroi Makino : {Yaeyama Sumire} First published in Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 21: 57 (1907) |
| Variety | Viola tashiroi var. tairae Nakajima : {Isigaki Sumire} | |
| Origin | tashiroi : originating in a name of person (A. Tashiro 1857-1928)、 tairae : Named in honor of Chosei Taira, a prominent Okinawan botanist and taxonomist, this taxon is associated with an individual who contributed to the discovery of numerous new species and varieties and dedicated himself to elucidating the flora of the Nansei Islands (a chain of islands extending in an arc from Kyushu -Kagoshima Prefecture- to Taiwan). |
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| Stalk Form | The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock. | |
| Habitat |  The leaf is heart shape. White fine hair is shown in the surface. Following mother class except for the shape of leaf. |
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| Distribution | Japan domestic | |
| Japan overseas | ||
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| Aromatic | ||
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| Endangered Information | CR (Critically Endangered), Okinawa Endangered I | |
| Type Specimen | Isigaki island in Okinawa, 1968.4.25 by Nakajima | |
| Chromosome Number | 2n=22 (Yoshioka, H. & R. TANAKA, 1981, Chromosomes of Viola. Shin Kaki) | |
| Reference Information | ||
| Others | Generally it is smaller than Viola tashiroi (Mother class). | |
