A Survey of Wild Indigenous <i>Cryptostylis ovata</i> Orchid Populations in Western Australia Reveals Spillover of Exotic Viruses by Stephen Wylie, Hua Li, Shu Hui Koh

“…The OrMV isolate shared 98–99% nucleotide identity with isolates identified from wild indigenous <i>Lachenalia</i> (Iridaceae) plants in South Africa. This suggests that the source of OrMV in <i>C. ovata</i> may be one or more bulbous iridaceous flowering plants of southern African origin that were introduced to Western Australia as ornamentals and that have since become invasive weeds. …”
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