Pandanus boninensis

Pandanus boninensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Monocots
Order:	Pandanales
Family:	Pandanaceae
Genus:	Pandanus
Species:	P. boninensis
Binomial name
Pandanus boninensis

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

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.