Thismia kobensis
| Thismia kobensis | |
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| Holotype specimen after dissection on 10 June 1992 | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Burmanniaceae |
| Genus: | Thismia Griffith, 1844[2][3] |
| 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 from the Thismia genus in the myco-heterotrophic family Burmanniaceae.
The type and only specimen was discovered in Kobe, Japan, in 1992, and preserved without identification, although it qas originally assigned to the genus Oxygyne. 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.[4] It was described as a species of Thismia in 2018.[1]
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Griffith W. (1844). "On the root parasites referred by authors to Rhizantheae and their allies". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 216-221. page 221.
- ^ "Genus: Thismia Griff". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area. Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
- ^ "New plant species discovered in museum is probably extinct". Phys.org. 12 September 2018.