| Thismia kobensis | |
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| Holotype specimen after dissection on 10 June 1992 | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Burmanniaceae |
| Genus: | Thismia Griffith, 1844 [1] [2] |
| Species: | T. kobensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Thismia kobensis Suetsugu et al., 2018 [3] | |
Thismia kobensis is a species of flowering plant from the Thismia genus in the myco-heterotrophic family Burmanniaceae.
The type and originally only specimen was discovered in Kobe, Japan, in 1992, and preserved without identification, although it was originally assigned to the genus Oxygyne . No new specimens were found in follow-up surveys between 1993 and 1999, and the plant's original habitat was destroyed by land development in 1999. T. kobensis was declared extinct in 2010 due to habitat loss and deforestation. [4] It was described as a species of Thismia in 2018. [3]
In 2021 the plant was rediscovered some 30 km away from the original location. 20 specimens were found in a conifer plantation. [5] News of the rediscovery was published in 2023. [6]