Thismia

Thismia
Thismia rodwayi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Burmanniaceae
Genus: Thismia
Griff., 1844[1][2]
Synonyms[3]
  • Ophiomeris Miers
  • Sarcosiphon Blume
  • Tribrachys Champ. ex Thwaites not valid
  • Myostoma Miers
  • Bagnisia Becc.
  • Rodwaya F.Muell. not valid
  • Triscyphus Taub.
  • Glaziocharis Taub. ex Warm.
  • Triurocodon Schltr.
  • Mamorea de la Sota

Thismia is a genus of myco-heterotrophic plants in family Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1845. It is native to East and Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, Central America, South America, and †Illinois.[3][4][5]

Species[3]
  1. Thismia abei (Akasawa) Hatus. - Awa on Shikoku Island in Japan
  2. Thismia alba Holttum - S Thailand, Pahang
  3. †Thismia americana N.Pfeiff. - Lake Calumet in Illinois in USA but extinct[6]
  4. Thismia angustimitra S.Chantanaorrapint[7] - Thailand
  5. Thismia annamensis K.Larsen & Aver. - Vietnam
  6. Thismia arachnites Ridl. - W Malaysia
  7. Thismia aseroe Becc. - Perak, Singapore
  8. Thismia betung-kerihunensis Tsukaya & H.Okada - Kalimantan
  9. Thismia bifida M.Hotta - Sarawak
  10. Thismia brunonis Griff. - Myanmar
  11. †Thismia caudata Maas & H.Maas - Brazil but extinct
  12. Thismia chrysops Ridl - W Malaysia
  13. Thismia clandestina (Blume) Miq.[7] - Java
  14. Thismia clavarioides K.R.Thiele[8] - New South Wales
  15. Thismia crocea (Becc.) J.J.Sm.[7] - W New Guinea
  16. Thismia episcopalis (Becc.) J.J.Sm.[7] - Borneo
  17. Thismia espirito-santensis Brade - Espírito Santo in Brazil
  18. Thismia filiformis Chantanaorr. - Thailand
  19. Thismia fumida Ridl. - Selangor, Singapore
  20. †Thismia fungiformis (Taub. ex Warm.) Maas & H.Maas - Brazil but extinct
  21. Thismia gardneriana Hook.f. ex Thwaites - Sri Lanka
  22. Thismia glaziovii Poulsen - Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
  23. Thismia goodii Kiew - Sabah
  24. Thismia grandiflora Ridl. - Johor in Malaysia
  25. Thismia hexagona Dančák, Hroneš, Kobrlová & Sochor, 2013[9]
  26. Thismia hongkongensis S.S.Mar & R.M.K.Saunders[10] - Hong Kong
  27. Thismia huangii P.Y.Jiang & T.H.Hsieh - Taiwan
  28. Thismia hyalina (Miers) Benth. & Hook.f. ex F.Muell. - Peru, Brazil
  29. Thismia iguassuensis (Miers) Warm. - Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
  30. Thismia janeirensis Warm - Rio de Janeiro + Minas Gerais in Brazil
  31. Thismia javanica J.J. Sm. - Thailand, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra
  32. Thismia labiata J.J.Sm. - Sumatra
  33. Thismia lauriana Jarvie - Kalimantan
  34. Thismia luetzelburgii Goebel & Suess. - Costa Rica, Panama, Espirito Santo in Brazil
  35. Thismia macahensis (Miers) F.Muell. - Rio de Janeiro in Brazil
  36. Thismia megalongensis C.Hunt, G.Steenbeeke & V.Merckx[11] - New South Wales, Australia
  37. Thismia melanomitra Maas & H.Maas - Ecuador
  38. Thismia mirabilis K. Larsen - Thailand
  39. Thismia mullerensis Tsukaya & H.Okada[12] - Kalimantan
  40. Thismia neptunis Becc. - Sarawak
  41. Thismia ophiuris Becc. - Borneo
  42. Thismia panamensis (Standl.) Jonker - from Costa Rica to Bolivia
  43. Thismia racemosa Ridl. - Pahang in Malaysia
  44. Thismia rodwayi F.Muell. - Fairy Lanterns[8] - New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria, New Zealand North Island
  45. Thismia saulensis[13] - French Guiana
  46. Thismia singeri (de la Sota) Maas & H.Maas - Beni in Bolivia
  47. Thismia taiwanensis[14] - Gaoxiong in Taiwan
  48. Thismia tentaculata K.Larsen & Aver. - Hong Kong, Vietnam
  49. Thismia tuberculata Hatus. - Kyushu in Japan
  50. Thismia yorkensis Cribb[8] - N Queensland

References

  1. ↑ Griffith W. (1844). "On the root parasites referred by authors to Rhizantheae and their allies". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1: 216-221. page 221.
  2. ↑ "Genus: Thismia Griff.". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant families
  4. ↑ McLennan, EI (1958). "Thismia rodwayi F. Muell. and its endophyte". Australian Journal of Botany 6 (1): 25. doi:10.1071/BT9580025. ISSN 0067-1924.
  5. ↑ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  6. ↑ Rodkin, Dennis (September 22, 1994). "Searching for Thismia". Chicago Reader. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chantanaorrapint, S. 2008. A new species of the genus Thismia (Thismiaceae) from Thailand is described and illustrated. Blumea - Biodiversity, Evolution and Biogeography of Plants 53(3); 524-526 http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea/2008/00000053/00000003/art00004
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Thismia". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government, Canberra. Retrieved 2010-05-09.
  9. ↑ Dančák, M.; Hroneš, M.; Sochor, M.; Kobrlová, L.; Hédl, R.; Hrázský, Z.; Vildomcová, A.; Sukri, R. S.; Metali, F. (2013). "A new species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from Brunei Darussalam, Borneo". Phytotaxa 125 (1): 33–39. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.125.1.5.
  10. ↑ Mar, Shek Shing; Saunders, Richard (4 February 2015). "Thismia hongkongensis (Thismiaceae): a new mycoheterotrophic species from Hong Kong, China, with observations on floral visitors and seed dispersal". PhytoKeys 46: 21–33. doi:10.3897/phytokeys.46.8963. Retrieved 15 February 2015.
  11. ↑ Hunt, C.; Steenbeeke, G.; Merck, V. (2013). "Thismia megalongensis (Thismiaceae), a new species of Thismia from New South Wales". Telopea: 165. doi:10.7751/telopea20147809.
  12. ↑ HIROKAZU, TSUKAYA; TSUKAYA HIROKAZU; TSUKAYA HIROKAZU; OKADA HIROSHI (2005). "Thismia mullerensis (Burmanniaceae), a New Species from Muller Range, Central Kalimantan". APG Act Phytotaxono Geobot 56 (2): 129–133.
  13. ↑ Maas, H.; Maas, P. J. M. (1987). "A new Thismia (Burmanniaceae) from French Guiana. '". Brittonia' 39 (3): 376–378. doi:10.2307/2807137.
  14. ↑ Sheng-Zehn Yang; Richard M. K. Saunders; Chung-Jou Hsu (July 2002). "Thismia taiwanensis sp. nov. (Burmanniaceae tribe Thismieae): First Record of the Tribe in China". Systematic Botany 27 (3): 485–488. doi:10.1043/0363-6445-27.3.485 (inactive 2015-03-19).
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