Oxygyne
Appearance
Oxygyne | |
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Genus: | Oxygyne |
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Oxygyne triandra | |
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Saionia Hatus. |
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]
- 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
- ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ 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.
- ^ Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1906. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 38: 140