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The "Oo-hana-warabi" (Botrychium japonicum) belongs to Selaginellaceae (the Spikemoss family). It is a winter-green fern that is distributed from the central Tohoku region of Honshu southward to Shikoku and Kyushu in Japan, as well as Taiwan, the Korean Peninsula, and China. It grows rather sparsely on the forest floor in mountainous areas and is 20 to 50 cm tall. Leaves are produced once a year and wither in summer. The sterile fronds are three times pinnate, dark green, somewhat thick, and herbaceous. The fertile fronds are longer than the sterile fronds, and the upper strobiluses are twice pinnately branched and bear conical round sporangia. It is called "台灣大陰地蕨" in Taiwanese Chinese and "華東陰地蕨" (hua dong yin di jue) in Chinese.
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