Gastrodia Kuroshimensis. Kenji tsuetsugu discovered a new species of gastrodia orchidaceae on kuroshima island located in the northern ryukyu japan. In april 2016 during his research trip in the lowland forests in kuroshima he came across approximately one hundred individuals of an unfamiliar mycoheterotrophic species.
A new species of plant has been discovered on the japanese island of kuroshima. Distribución ha sido descubierta en la. Gastrodia kuroshimensis discovered on kuroshima professor suetsugu is involved in documenting the distribution and classification of mycoheterotrophic plants in japan.
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First described in 2019 when kenji suetsugu of the kobe university together with independent scientists hidekazu morita yohei tashiro chiyoko hara and kazuki yamamuro came across the flower during a flora survey of the islands evergreen forests. Gastrodia kuroshimensis лат вид многолетних безлистных бесхлорофильных микогетеротрофных растений рода гастродия из семейства орхидные. A new plant species discovered on the subtropical japanese island of kuroshima has been named gastrodia kuroshimensis according to a paper published in the journal phytotaxa. It is mycoheterotrophic meaning that it does not engage in photosynthesis like most plants but obtains energy from its host fungi.