Oxygyne hyodoi C.Abe & Akasawa (1989:161)
Hina-no-bonbori
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Saionia hyodoi (C.Abe & Akasawa) H.Ohashi in J. Jap. Bot. 90: 117 (2015)
Conservation Status
Last (and only) record: 9 October 1988 (Cheek et al., 2018)
Rediscovered in: October 2019 (Suetsugu et al., 2020)
Distribution & Habitat
Nishiumi-Cho, Minamiuwa-gun, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan
Anatomy & Morphology
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Abe, C. and Akasawa, Y. (1989). A new species of Oxygyne (Burmanniaceae) found in Shikoku, Japan. Journal of Japanese Botany 64(6): 161-164. https://doi.org/10.51033%2Fjjapbot.64_6_8326
Other references:
Cheek, Martin, Tsukaya, H., Rudall, P. J. and Suetsugu, K. (2018). Taxonomic monograph of Oxygyne (Thismiaceae), rare achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophs with strongly disjunct distribution. PeerJ 6: e4828. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4828
Ehime Prefectural Government. (2003). Threatened Wildlife in Ehime. Ehime: Nature Conservation Division, Dept of the Environment, Ehime Prefectural Govt. 283
Garrett, Natalie, Viruel, Juan, Klimpert, Nathaniel, Gomez, Marybel Soto, Lam, Vivienne K. Y., Merckx, Vincent S. F. T. and Graham, Sean W. (2023). Plastid phylogenomics and molecular evolution of Thismiaceae (Dioscoreales). American Journal of Botany 110(4): e16141. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16141
Govaerts, R. (2004). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-54382. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. and Saunders, R. M. K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Iwatsuki, K., Boufford, D. E. and Ohba, H. (2016). Flora of Japan IVb: 1-335. Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo.
Kobayashi, T. and Kobayashi, N. (1993). On a species of Oxygyne (Burmanniaceae) from Kobe City. Journal of Phytogeography and Taxonomy 41(1): 29-30. (in Japanese)
Ohashi, H. (2015). Resurrection of Saionia (Thismiaceae) Journal of Japanese Botany 90: 115-118.
POWO. (2023). Plants of the World Online (online resource). Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom. Available at: https://powo.science.kew.org/ [Accessed 25 December 2023]
Suetsugu, Kenji, Okada, Hidehito, Hirota, Shun K. and Suyama, Yoshihisa. (2022). Evolutionary history of mycorrhizal associations between Japanese Oxygyne (Thismiaceae) species and Glomeraceae fungi. New Phytologist 235(3): 836-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18163
Suetsugu, Kenji, Nishioka, Tatsuki and Hogaki, Yusuke (2020). タイプ産地で30年ぶりに発見されたヒナノボンボリ （タヌキノショクダイ科）[translation: Rediscovery of Oxygyne hyodoi (Thismiaceae) in its type locality after 30 years]. Journal of Phytogeography and Taxonomy 68(2): 89-91. https://doi.org/10.18942%2Fchiribunrui.0682-02 [in Japanese]
Thorogood, Chris J. (2019). Oxygyne: An extraordinarily elusive flower. Plants, People, Planet 1(2): 67-70. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fppp3.26
Tsukaya, H. (2016). Burmanniaceae. In: Iwatsuki K, Boufford DE, Ohba H, eds. Flora of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha Publisher. Vol. IVb: 194-197.
Acknowledgements
I thank Natasha for bringing the rediscovery of this taxon to my attention.