Biology:Oxygyne
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Short description: Genus of flowering plants
| Oxygyne | |
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| Oxygyne triandra (G-M) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Burmanniaceae |
| Genus: | Oxygyne Schltr. |
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| Oxygyne triandra Schltr.
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Oxygyne is a genus of plant in family Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1906. It has a highly disjunct distribution, found in Japan in East Asia and in Cameroon in Central Africa.[1][2][3] The genus is composed by six species which are all mycoheterotrophic, are devoid of functional leaves and do not photosynthesise.[4]
Species[1]
- Oxygyne hyodoi C.Abe & Akasawa - Ehime on Shikoku Island in Japan
- Oxygyne shinzatoi (Hatus.) C.Abe & Akasawa - Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu Islands) in Japan
- Oxygyne triandra Schltr. - Cameroon
- Oxygyne yamashitae Yahara & Tsukaya - Yaku-shima in Japan
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew" (in en-GB). http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=256341.
- ↑ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & 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.
- ↑ (in en) Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.. v.38 (1907). 1907-01-01. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/128059#page/153/mode/1up.
- ↑ Thorogood, Chris J. (2019). "Oxygyne : An extraordinarily elusive flower" (in en). Plants, People, Planet 1 (2): 67–70. doi:10.1002/ppp3.26. ISSN 2572-2611. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.26.
Wikidata ☰ Q1331342 entry
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