Biology:Pandanus boninensis
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
Pandanus boninensis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Pandanales |
Family: | Pandanaceae |
Genus: | Pandanus |
Species: | P. boninensis
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Binomial name | |
Pandanus boninensis Warb.
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Pandanus boninensis is an Asian species of plant that is endemic to and common in the Distylium-Schima dry forests and Raphiolepis-Livistona dry forests of the Ogasawara Islands, Japan .[1] It has aerial prop roots and grows on rocks.[2] The beetle, Phylloplatypus pandani is a leaf miner that consumes the leaves of P. boninensis, it was first described by scientists in 1998.[3] The fungus, Kodonospora tetracolumnaris was isolated from dead leaves of P. boninensis and described in 1993.[4]
References
- ↑ "Ogasawara subtropical moist forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. http://worldwildlife.org/ecoregions/oc0109. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
- ↑ "Conservation Portraits: Botanical Illustrations of Japan’s Endangered Plants". Arboretum Exhibits. The United States National Arboretum. http://www.usna.usda.gov/Education/botanicalillustrations.html. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
- ↑ Kato, M (January 1998). "Unique leafmining habit in the bark beetle clade: A new tribe, genus, and species of Platypodidae (Coleoptera) found in the Bonin Islands". Annals of the Entomological Society of America 91 (1): 71–80.
- ↑ Ando, K (April 1993). "Kodonospora, a new staurosporous hyphomycete genus from Japan". Mycological Research 97 (4): 506–508. doi:10.1016/S0953-7562(09)80139-1.
Wikidata ☰ Q293360 entry
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