Pandanus boninensis explained

Pandanus boninensis is an Asian species of plant that is endemic to and common in the Distylium-Schima dry forests and Raphiolepis-Livistona dry forests of the Bonin Islands, Japan. It has aerial prop roots and grows on rocks.^[1] The beetle, Phylloplatypus pandani is a leaf miner that consumes the leaves of P. boninensis, it was first described by scientists in 1998.^[2] The fungus, Kodonospora tetracolumnaris was isolated from dead leaves of P. boninensis and described in 1993.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Conservation Portraits: Botanical Illustrations of Japan’s Endangered Plants . 2006-11-21 . Arboretum Exhibits . The United States National Arboretum .
2. 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.
3. 10.1016/S0953-7562(09)80139-1. Ando. K. April 1993 . Kodonospora, a new staurosporous hyphomycete genus from Japan. Mycological Research. 97. 506–508. 4.