Hime
Hime (姫) is the Japanese word for "princess", or more literally "demoiselle", i.e. a (usually young) lady of higher birth. Daughters of a monarch are actually referred to by other terms, e.g. Ōjo (王女), literally king's daughter, even though Hime can be used to address Ōjo.
9 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 9 known species
Japanese Threadsail
speciesHime japonica
Shortsnout Threadsail
speciesHime curtirostris
Hime formosana
speciesHime formosana
Guyote Flagfin
speciesHime microps
Flaming Flagfin
speciesHime pyrhistion
Hime capitonis
speciesHime capitonis
Hime diactithrix
speciesHime diactithrix
Hime surrubea
speciesHime surrubea
Hime caudizoma
speciesHime caudizoma
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Sancai Tuhui (Vol. 93)
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.12
History of Monsters
Ulisse Aldrovandi · 1642 · p.350
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.1510
The Plants of Egypt
Prospero Alpini · 1592 · p.117
Thesaurus of Medical Things of New Spain, or History of Mexican Plants, Animals, and Minerals
Francisco Hernández; Nardo Antonio Recchi (ed.) · 1651 · p.166
Treasury of Medical Matters of New Spain
Francisco Hernández · 1651 · p.181
Kinpu: An Illustrated Manual of Fungi (vol. 1)
Sakamoto Kōnen · 1835 · p.21
History of the Plants of New Spain, Volume 3
Francisco Hernández (1517-1587) · 1946 · p.240
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.51
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 88904.