Petrosavia sakuraii
Petrosavia sakuraii, one of three species in the genus Petrosavia, is a monocotyledonous plant first described by Tomitaro Makino in 1903 (see illustration),[1] distributed in eastern and south-eastern Asia. They are rare leafless achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic plants found in dark montane rainforests.[2]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Petrosaviales |
| Family: | Petrosaviaceae |
| Genus: | Petrosavia |
| Species: | P. sakuraii |
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Distribution
Japan (Mino Province), China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan), Vietnam, Myanmar, Sumatra.[3][4]
References
- Makino, T. (1903) Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 17: 145.
- Cameron, Chase & Rudall 2003
- Flora of China vol. 24: Petrosavia sakuraii'''
- Nuraliev, Maxim S.; Kuznetsov, Andrey N.; Kuznetsova, Svetlana P.; Averyanov, Leonid V. (2019). "Towards inventory of non-photosynthetic plants in Vietnam: a progress report" (PDF). Wulfenia. 26: 147–154.
Bibliography
- Cameron, Kenneth M.; Chase, Mark W.; Rudall, Paula J. (July 2003), "Recircumscription of the monocotyledonous family Petrosaviaceae to include Japonolirion", Brittonia, 55 (3): 214–225, doi:10.1663/0007-196X(2003)055[0214:ROTMFP]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR 3218442, S2CID 39771490
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