| Family |
Chloranthaceae |
| Scientific name |
Chloranthus fortunei (A. Gray) Solms Laubach |
| Synonyms |
Chloranthus japonicus Siebold var. koreanus (Nakai) T. B. Lee; Chloranthus
koreanus Nakai; Chloranthus fortunei (A. Gray) Solms Laubach var. koreanus
(Nakai) Hiyama; Tricercandra fortunei A. Gray |
| Common name |
(Japanese common name) kibi hitori-sizuka [Kibi one Sizuka (Kibi = an old
name of Okayama Prefecture, Sizuka = a famous lady in medieval era of Japan)] |
| (English common name) none |
| Distribution |
(Japan) Honshu (Wakayama Prefecture, west of Okayama Prefecture), Shikoku,
Kyushu |
| (Other nations) Korea, China |
| Chromosomal number |
2n=60 |
| Description |
Plants 20-30cm tall. Leaves 5-12cm long, 2-7cm wide. Flowers white, flowering
in March to April. Perennial plants. |
| Reference |
Chloranthus fortunei (A. Gray) Solms Laubach |
| Phylogeny of Chloranthus (Chloranthaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal ITS
and plastid TRNL-F sequence data |
| Karyotypes of Sarcandra Gardn. and Chloranthus Swartz (Chloranthaceae)
from China |
| Flower initiation inducer (US Patent 6057157/2000) |
| Agents for inducing flower bud formation (US Patent 6174712/2001) |
| Methods of screening open reading frames to determine whether they encode
polypeptides with an ability to generate an immune response (US Patent
6410241/2002) |
| PEI: DNA vector formulations for in vitro and in vivo gene delivery (US
Patent 6846809/2005) |
| Method of screening for a biological response using linear and circular
expression elements (US Patent 6900018/2005) |
| Plant potentiators (US Patent 6987130/2006) |
| Linear and circular expression elements (US Patent 7018833/2006) |
| Method of vaccination comprising linear and circular expression elements
(US Patent 7049098/2006) |
| Ketol fatty acid derivatives and plant growth regulators (US Patent 7348457/2008) |
