Zeuxine boninensis boninensis Tuyama, 1935
Munin-kinuran
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Zeuxine sakagutii Tuyama, 1936; Zeuxine gracilis sakagutii (Tuyama) T.Hashim., 1986; Zeuxine taiwaniana S.S.Ying, 1987; Zeuxine uraiensis S.S.Ying, 1988
Considered a synonym of Z. parvifolia by (POWO, 2018; Humphreys et al., 2019).
Conservation Status
Rediscovered (Yukawa et al., 2018)
Distribution
Bonin Islands (=Ogasawara Islands), Japan
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Humphreys, Aelys M. (2019). Global dataset shows geography and life form predict modern plant extinction and rediscovery. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3: 1043-1047. [Abstract] [Supplementary Dataset 1]
POWO. 2018. Plants of the World online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://e-monocot.org/.
Walter, Kerry S. and Gillett, Harriet J. (eds.). (1998). 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants. Compiled by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Gland, Switzerland & Cambridge, UK: IUCN – The World Conservation Union. lxiv + 862 pp.
Yoshida, A. & Tannawa, T. (1977). Endangered plant species of the Ogasawara islands. Notes of the Waimea Arboretum 3(2): 8-12.
Yukawa, Tomohisa et al. (2018). Rediscovery of Zeuxine boninensis (Orchidaceae) from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands and Taxonomic Reappraisal of the Species. Bull. Natl. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ser. B, 44(3): 127-134.