Timothy M. A. Utteridge, Masumi Yamanaka, Yoshiteru Komaki, Atsushi Kawakita
{"title":"1112. Pittosporum beecheyi Tuyama","authors":"Timothy M. A. Utteridge, Masumi Yamanaka, Yoshiteru Komaki, Atsushi Kawakita","doi":"10.1111/curt.12592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12592","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>Pittosporum beecheyi</i> Tuyama, endemic to the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands is described and illustrated; the species is known only from the Hahajima Island group. Key characters for the recognition of this species include the hairy ovary, the solitary flowers with curved pedicels, and the pendulous globose fruits that dehisce into three valves.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"351-358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1116. Rhododendron boninense Nakai","authors":"Atsushi Kawakita, Yoshiteru Komaki, Takefumi Tanaka, Masumi Yamanaka","doi":"10.1111/curt.12593","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12593","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Rhododendron boninense</i> Nakai, illustrated here, is a critically endangered endemic rhododendron from the Ogasawara Islands, whose population was once reduced to a single individual. Since the 1980s, Koishikawa Botanical Garden has made efforts to propagate and reintroduce this species to its original habitat, resulting in a current population of 60 mature plants and several natural seedlings. The pure white corolla, which lacks a nectar guide, is distinctive among related rhododendrons, suggesting that a pollinator shift occurred after colonisation of the Ogasawara Islands, where the ancestral pollinators are absent.</p>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"385-393"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/curt.12593","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1109. Metrosideros boninensis (Hayata ex Koidz.) Tuyama","authors":"Ko Mochizuki, Kaoru Yoneda, Masumi Yamanaka","doi":"10.1111/curt.12591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12591","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We illustrate <i>Metrosideros boninensis</i> (Hayata ex Koidz.) Tuyama endemic to the Chichijima Island group of Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands with a detailed description and photographs of its natural habitat. Its pollination biology is discussed in relation to its floral traits with photographs of the pollinators.</p>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"323-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/curt.12591","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1113. Stachyurus macrocarpus Koidz. var. prunifolius Tuyama","authors":"Yumiko Higuchi, Minako Takegami, Masumi Yamanaka","doi":"10.1111/curt.12587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12587","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p><i>Stachyurus macrocarpus</i> Koidz. var. <i>prunifolius</i> Tuyama is described and illustrated. The species is endemic to Haha-jima, one of the islands of the Bonin Islands, Japan, and highly endangered. We provide information about this species, including its discovery, reproduction, conservation, cultivation, and uses.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"359-368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1111. Melastoma candidum D.Don var. alessandrense S.Kobayashi","authors":"Hidetoshi Kato, Yoshiteru Komaki, Masumi Yamanaka","doi":"10.1111/curt.12586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12586","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Melastoma candidum</i> D.Don var. <i>alessandrense</i> S.Kobayashi is an evergreen shrub endemic to Kita-iwoto Island, an oceanic volcanic island in the subtropical northwestern Pacific Ocean. Here we provide illustrations to show the morphological features of this species and demonstrate the unique natural environment which is its habitat, where few people in the world have ever been.</p>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"341-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/curt.12586","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1117. Crepidiastrum grandicollum (Koidz.) Nakai: Compositae","authors":"Nicholas Hind, Masumi Yamanaka, Naoko Yasue","doi":"10.1111/curt.12584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12584","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Crepidiastrum grandicollum</i> (Koidz.) Nakai (Compositae: Lactuceae: Crepidinae) is described and illustrated. The current synonymy is provided, together with type citations for each of the names and statements of the type material. A selection of verified illustrations of the species in the literature is provided. Statements of the species' distribution, habitat and ecological preferences (with observations on the phytosociological classification), phenology, conservation status, and the etymology of both generic and specific epithets are given along with vernacular names, some of which are apparently literal translations of the Latin binomial. Cultivation, propagation, and availability notes are provided, although the species is Critically Endangered and currently only cultivated Koishikawa Botanical Garden, University of Tokyo, Japan, as part of the Ministry of the Environment's Rare Wild Fauna and Flora Species Protection and Breeding Project. Discussions include pollination syndromes in <i>Crepidiastrum</i> in the Bonin Islands, the intricacies of the involvement of the <span>Honey</span> <span>Bee</span> in their pollination (compared with conservation measures) and the displacement of native insect pollinators, mention of seed/achene dispersal and evolution within the genus, conservation proposals, including the use of exclosures to prevent destruction by <span>feral goats</span> (<i>Capra hircus</i>), and electric fences, adhesive traps and Teflon™ sheets to help control the lizard known as the <span>Green Anole</span> (<i>Anolis carolinensis</i>); typhoon damage and the potential for issues with ants - <i>Pheidole</i> (Westwood) spp. (including the <span>African Big-headed Ant,</span> <i>P. megacephala</i>) are also mentioned. Some consideration for the rôle of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) associations with the endemics in conservation programmes should not be overlooked. Attention is drawn to observations on some bizarre web sites with somewhat bogus information on the species, and why they should be disregarded.</p>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"395-414"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/curt.12584","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"1114. Wikstroemia pseudoretusa Koidz.","authors":"Jin Murata, Masumi Yamanaka","doi":"10.1111/curt.12588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12588","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>Wikstroemia pseudoretusa</i> Koidz., endemic to the Ogasawara Islands, Japan is illustrated here from an <i>ex-situ</i> collection conserved in the glasshouse of the Koishikawa Botanical Gardens, Tokyo.</p>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"369-375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/curt.12588","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142641303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Diego T. Vasques, Atsushi Ebihara, Keiko Takenaka, Miho Miyashita
{"title":"1107. Lepisorus boninensis (H.Christ) Ching","authors":"Diego T. Vasques, Atsushi Ebihara, Keiko Takenaka, Miho Miyashita","doi":"10.1111/curt.12583","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/curt.12583","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We describe and illustrate the evergreen and epiphytic fern <i>Lepisorus boninensis</i> (H.Christ) Ching, endemic to the Bonin Islands in Japan. This species can be recognised by the dimorphic leaves, the ovate and clathrate scales on the rhizome, and the irregularly-shaped paraphyses growing between sporangia of the sori.</p>","PeriodicalId":100348,"journal":{"name":"Curtis's Botanical Magazine","volume":"41 3","pages":"303-311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/curt.12583","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}