Afrothismiaceae
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Afrothismia lovettii sp. nov. (Afrothismiaceae) Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct) and endemic to the Kihansi Falls Forest, Tanzania
The fully mycotrophic (or mycoheterotrophic) non-photosynthetic Afrothismia lovettii Cheek sp. nov. (Afrothismiaceae), is described and illustrated from the Kihansi Gorge Forest of the Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania where a World Bank-funded hydroproject may have resulted in its extinction, together with the possible extinction of two other narrowly endemic species of mycoheterophic plant, Kihansia lovettii and Kupea jonii (Triuridaceae). The co-incidence of these three species makes (or made) the...