Pandanus boninensis

Pandanus boninensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Pandanales
Family:	Pandanaceae
Genus:	Pandanus
Species:	P. boninensis
Binomial name
	Pandanus boninensis; Warb.

Pandanus boninensis is an Asian species of plant that is endemic to and common in the Distylium-Schima dry forests and Raphiolepsis-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. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
"Conservation Portraits: Botanical Illustrations of Japan's Endangered Plants". Arboretum Exhibits. The United States National Arboretum. 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.

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[1] "Ogasawara subtropical moist forests". Terrestrial Ecoregions. World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2006-11-21.

[2] "Conservation Portraits: Botanical Illustrations of Japan's Endangered Plants". Arboretum Exhibits. The United States National Arboretum. Retrieved 2006-11-21.

[3] 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.

[4] 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.