Thismia kobensis
| Thismia kobensis | |
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| Holotype specimen after dissection in 1992 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Burmanniaceae |
| Genus: | Thismia |
| Species: | T. kobensis
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| Binomial name | |
| Thismia kobensis Suetsugu et al., 2018[1]
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Thismia kobensis is an extinct species of plant in the myco-heterotrophic family Burmanniaceae.
The type and only specimen was discovered in Kobe, Japan, in 1992, and preserved without identification. No new specimens were found in follow-up surveys between 1993 and 1999, and the plant's original habitat was destroyed by land development in 1999. T. kobensis was declared extinct in 2010 due to habitat loss and deforestation.[2]
References
- ^ Suetsugu, Kenji; Nakanishi, Osamu; Kobayashi, Tomiki; Kurosaki, Nobuhira (2018). "Thismia kobensis (Burmanniaceae), a new and presumably extinct species from Hyogo Prefecture, Japan". Phytotaxa. 369 (2): 121. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.369.2.6.
- ^ "New plant species discovered in museum is probably extinct". Phys.org. 12 September 2018.