Petrosavia sakuraii

Petrosavia sakuraii, one of three species in the genus Petrosavia, is a monocotyledonous plant first described by Tomitaro Makino in 1903 (see illustration),^[1] distributed in eastern and south-eastern Asia. They are rare leafless achlorophyllous, mycoheterotrophic plants found in dark montane rainforests.^[2]

Petrosavia sakuraii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Order:	Petrosaviales
Family:	Petrosaviaceae
Genus:	Petrosavia
Species:	P. sakuraii
Binomial name
Petrosavia sakuraii (Makino) J.J.Sm. ex Steenis
Synonyms
Protolirion sakuraii (Makino) Dandy Protolirion miyoshia-sakuraii Makino, nom. illeg. Petrosavia miyoshia-sakuraii Makino Miyoshia sakuraii Makino

Distribution

Japan (Mino Province), China (Guangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan), Vietnam, Myanmar, Sumatra.^[3][4]

References

1. Makino, T. (1903) Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 17: 145.
2. Cameron, Chase & Rudall 2003
3. Flora of China vol. 24: Petrosavia sakuraii
4. Nuraliev, Maxim S.; Kuznetsov, Andrey N.; Kuznetsova, Svetlana P.; Averyanov, Leonid V. (2019). "Towards inventory of non-photosynthetic plants in Vietnam: a progress report" (PDF). Wulfenia. 26: 147–154.

Bibliography

• Cameron, Kenneth M.; Chase, Mark W.; Rudall, Paula J. (July 2003), "Recircumscription of the monocotyledonous family Petrosaviaceae to include Japonolirion", Brittonia, 55 (3): 214–225, doi:10.1663/0007-196X(2003)055[0214:ROTMFP]2.0.CO;2, JSTOR 3218442, S2CID 39771490