Oxygyne

Oxygyne
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Burmanniaceae
Genus: Oxygyne
Schltr.
Type species
Oxygyne triandra
Schltr.
Synonyms[1]

Saionia Hatus.

Oxygyne is a genus of plant in family Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1906. It has a highly disjunct distribution, found in Japan in East Asia and in Cameroon in Central Africa.[1][2][3]

Species[1]
  1. Oxygyne hyodoi C.Abe & Akasawa - Ehime on Shikoku Island in Japan
  2. Oxygyne shinzatoi (Hatus.) C.Abe & Akasawa - Nansei-shoto (Ryukyu Islands) in Japan
  3. Oxygyne triandra Schltr. - Cameroon
  4. Oxygyne yamashitae Yahara & Tsukaya - Yaku-shima in Japan

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  3. ↑ Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf. 1906. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 38: 140


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