A New Species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from West Kalimantan, Borneo

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Tsukaya, Hirokazu, Okada, Hiroshi (2012): A New Species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from West Kalimantan, Borneo. Systematic Botany (Basel, Switzerland) 37 (1): 53-57, DOI: 10.1600/036364412X616639, URL: doi.org/10.1600/036364412x616639 Abstract— A new species of Thismiaceae, Thismia betung-kerihunensis Tsukaya et H. Okada, found during a botanical survey of Betung-Kerihun National Park, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, is described and illustrated.

This species closely resembles Thismia clavigera (Becc.) F. Muell, which is distributed in Borneo, Sumatra, Langkawi, and Thailand; however, it differs in flower shape, size, and color, having conspicuous hood-like appendages at the tip of the brilliant blue-green colored mitre formed by the three inner tepals. Moreover, it differs in the shape of the anther connectives that lack acutely elongated apices and has rectangular glands.