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. 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. 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. "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).