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1Dede Abdul Hy2Budhi Gunawan2Oekan Abdoellah2

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Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis community in Isl. Java, Indonesia

Taku MIYAZAKI1Dede Abdul HY2Budhi GUNAWAN2Oekan ABDOELLAH2
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Sagamihara City Museum, Japan

Institute of Ecology, Department of Anthropography, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Abstract
The Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis (Polygonum nepalense) community is a weedy
community on arable land in mountainous areas of Java, Indonesia. We report its floristic composition
and compare it with the weedy Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis, which also includes
Persicaria nepalensis, in the cool temperate zone of Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan.
Within the two community types (Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis community and
Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis), were nine shared species. Of those nine species, three were
species of Chenopodietea in the upper vegetation unit of the Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis
(Miyawaki 1969). In the Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis community were some species from
warm temperate to subtropical areas of Japan. The Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis
community has evident floristic differences from the Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis.
Although the Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis community is evidently different in floristic
composition from the Japanese Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis of arable land, it is thought
that the Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis community belongs to a Chenopodietea or similar
floristic class to Chenopodietea.

Persicaria nepalensisMeisn.H.Gross

Synonim Polygonum nepalense Meisn.

Iwatsuki et al. 2006

Elsholtzio

ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis Miyawaki 1969

19871988

Kertasari

Iwatsuki et al. 2006

Cihawuk
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7 11 24

29 107 42 34

37

1,480

Kebun Raya Bogor

1,530m

2008

Backer & Bakhuizen196319651968

6 11 106 50

19701989Iwatsuki et al.1993

8m 1,903.4mm 27.4

1995199920012006

100m 0.6

2007 3 9 3 21

18.6

18.3

Synedrella nodiflora-

Braun-Blanquet

Persicaria nepalensis communityTable 1, Fig.1, 2,

1964; Mueller-Dombois & Ellenberg 1974

3 9

1,480

1,530m

Table 1.Floristic composition of Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis community.

Stand No.
Altitude (m)
Community height (m)
Coverage (%)
Size of quadrat (m2)
Number of species

80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
1480 1480 1480 1480 1480 1530 1530 1530 1530
0.2 0.2 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.4
70
65
95
90
95
90
85
90
90
1.2 1.2 1.4 1.4 1.6 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.4
9
9
11
14
13
10
12
8
9

Differential species of Synedrella nodiflora-Persicaria nepalensis community and upper vegetation units

3
3
4
4
5
3
Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn.

+
+
3
2
1
1
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koel.

4
2
2
4
Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H.Gross

1
+
+

Rorippa indica (L.) Hiern

Caryophyllaceae sp.
1

1
+
+
+

+
1
1
+
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.

1
+
+

Portulaca oleracea L.

+
+
+
+

Oxalis corniculata L.
Companion species

3
3
3
4
4

Ipomoea batatas Lam. (cult.)

+
+
+
1
+

Cyperus cyperinus (Retz.) Valck. Sur.

+
+

+
+

Cardamine flexuosa With.

4
Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L. (cult.)

Amaranthus deflexus L.

Eragrostis multicaulis Steud.

Ageratum conyzoides L.

Fimbristylis aestivalis (Retz.) Vahl

Oxalis articulata Savigny

Artemisia indica Willd.

+
Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers.

+
Oxalis corymbosa DC.

Allium fistulosum L. (cult.)

Lycopersicum esculentum Mill. (cult.)

Daucus carota L. var. sativa DC. (cult.)

Zea mays L. (cult.)

1
Musa paradisiaca L. (cult.)

3
1
3
+
+
1
1

2
1
3
+
+
+
+

3
1
3
+
+

+
+

4
+
+

Locality of stands: Cihawuk Village, Bandung Prefecture, Kertasari District, West Java Province, Indonesia
Stand No. 80-84Latitude 71124S, Longitude 1074234E
Stand No. 85-88Latitude 71129S, Longitude 1074237E

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0.2

0.4m

Iwatsuki et al. 19951977

Table 2

Fig. 1.Map of the study site in Isl. Java, Indonesia

Fig. 2.Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis

community in cultivated Ipomoea batatas
elds.

Fig. 3.Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis

community in cultivated Brassica oleracea
var. capitata eld.

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Miyawaki1969

Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis

Table 2

Backer & Bakhuizen196319651968

Table 2.Synthetic table of Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis community and Elsholtzio ciliataeSonchetum brachyotidis.
A: Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis community
B: Elsholtzio ciliatae-Sonchetum brachyotidis Miyawaki 1969
A
a
9

b
40

B
c
9

d
160

Number of stands
Spcies group 1
Synedrella nodiflora (L.) Gaertn.
Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb.
Caryophyllaceae sp.
Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
Cyperus cyperinus (Retz.) Valck. Sur.
Spcies group 2
Chenopodium album L.
Persicaria longiseta (Bruijn) Kitag.
Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) Beauv.
Commelina communis L.
Elsholtzia ciliata (Thunb.) Hyl.
Sonchus brachyotus DC.
Setaria viridis (L.) Beauv.
Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronquist
Stellaria neglecta Weihe
Rumex obtusifolius L.
Persicaria lapathifolia (L.) Delarbre
Digitaria violascens Link.
Spcies group 3
Persicaria nepalensis (Meisn.) H.Gross.
Digitaria ciliaris (Retz.) Koel.
Amaranthus blitum L.
Oxalis corniculata L.
Portulaca oleracea L.
Spcies group 4
Zea mays L. (cult.)
Phaseolus radiatus L. var. aurea Prain. (cult.)
Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata L. (cult.)
Solanum tuberosum L. (cult.)
Triticum spp. (cult.)
Ipomoea batatas Lam. (cult.)
Glycine max (L.) Merrill (cult.)
(The rest is omitted)

Locality of stands
a: Cihawuk Village, Bandung Prefecture, Kertasari District, West Java Province, Indonesia
b: Aomori Prefecture, Japnan, c: Hokkaido, Japan, d: Hokkaido, Japan
Reference
b: Table 77 in Miyawaki & Sasaki (1980), c: Table 82 in Miyawaki et al. (1988),
d: Table 1 in Miyawaki (1969)

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1983

Fig. 4.Synedrella nodiora -Persicaria nepalensis

community in tropical agriculture field with
Musa paradisiaca tree.

1,200 2,300m
0
1

1,600m
1

2,000m
1

3,020m

1,800m

Table 2

Braun-Blanquet, J. 1964. Pflazensoziologie, 3 Auflage.

S p r i n g e r - V e r l a g . , W i e n . t r a n s l a t e d i n t o

Japanese by Suzuki, T. 1971

Chenopodietea Br.-Bl. 1951

Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C.

Miyawaki 1969

1963. Flora of Java Vol. I. N.V.P. Noordhoff,

Commelinetalia communis

Gronigen.

Miyawaki 1969 Miyawaki 1969

Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C.

1965. Flora of Java Vol. II. N.V.P. Noordhoff,

0m

Gronigen.

Backer, C.A. & Bakhuizen van den Brink Jr, R.C.

1968. Flora of Java Vol. III. N.V.P. Noordhoff,

Gronigen.

Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D.E. & Ohba, H. eds. 1999.

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