Mitrastemon is a genus of two widely disjunct species of parasitic plants. It is the only genus within the family Mitrastemonaceae. Mitrastemon species are root endoparasites, which grow on Fagaceae. It is also a non-photosynthetic plant that parasitizes other plants such as Castanopsis sieboldii.
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Mitrastemon is a genus of two widely disjunct species of parasitic plants. It is the only genus within the family Mitrastemonaceae. Mitrastemon species are root endoparasites, which grow on Fagaceae. It is also a non-photosynthetic plant that parasitizes other plants such as Castanopsis sieboldii.
==History== The parasitic species, Mitrastemon yamamotoi was found in Japan in 1909. It was originally named Mitrastemma yamamotoi by botanist Tomitaro Makino (1862 – 1957), but was later renamed as Mitrastemon yamamotoi in 1911.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).