Kingdom Plantae Family Petrosaviaceae Rank Species | Order Petrosaviales Genus Petrosavia | |
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Similar Petrosavia, Petrosaviaceae, Japonolirion, Burmannia, Triuridaceae | ||
Petrosavia sakuraii, one of three species in the genus Petrosavia, is a monocotyledonous plant first described by Tomitaro Makino in 1903 (see illustration), distributed in eastern and south-eastern Asia. They are rare leafless achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic plants found in dark montane rainforests.
Distribution
Japan (Mino Province), China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan), Vietnam, Myanmar, Sumatra.
References
Petrosavia sakuraii Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA