BIOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE FORMS OF <i>ASARUM SIEBOLDII</i> MIQ. (ARISTOLICHIACEAE JUSS.)
Asarum sieboldii Miq. is valuable medicine plant, which grows in the South of Primorie (Russian Far East). The life form of A. sieboldii is short- or longrhizomed policarpous herbaceous plant with sympodial growth and rosette sprout. Species forms two types of rhizomes: shortened epigeogenous and mixed hypogeogenous and epigeogeonous. Species is characterized by the rosette sympodial model of the sprouting. Besides having two-cotyledontous sprouts, A. sieboldii has single-cotyledontous ones. Morphogenesis of the plant consists of 9 ontogenetic stages and 6 phases.