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Oxygyne hyodoi, commonly known as hina-no-bonbori (Japanese: ヒナノボンボリ), is a species of achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophic plant in the family Burmanniaceae. It is endemic to the island of Shikoku in Japan, where it is known only from the type locality. The small blue flowers appear in October.
First described in 1989 based on a specimen collected the year prior, this species was declared extinct in 2018 after decades of unsuccessful relocation attempts, however, a population of approximately 15 plants was rediscovered at the type locality in 2019.
Oxygyne hyodoi is known only from the type locality, the understorey of an evergreen forest in the town of Nishiumi, now part of Ainan, on the Japanese island of Shikoku. This habitat is dominated by Neolitsea sericea, Cinnamomum chekiangense, and Diospyros japonica, with Damnacanthus indicus, Ligustrum japonicum, and Maesa japonica also present.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oxygyne hyodoi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
