Monday, April 3, 2023

[Botany • 2023] Thismia calcarata & T. variabilis (Thismiaceae) • Two New Species of Thismia subg. Ophiomeris from the Brazilian Amazon Forest

  

  Thismia calcarata D. F. Silva, Honorio & J. M. A. Braga, 

 in Da Silva, Honório, Silva, Teixeira-Silva, Silveira et Braga, 2023. 

Abstract
Two new species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from T. subg. Ophiomeris sect. Ophiomeris are described for the Brazilian Amazon Forest, in the Open Ombrophilous Forests of the State of Acre. Here we provide detailed morphological descriptions, with illustrations, distribution maps and preliminary conservation analyses.

Keywords: Dioscoreales, Flora of Acre, mycoheterotrophic, neotropics, Ophiomeris, Monocots 



Thismia calcarata 
Thismia variabilis


Diego Ferreira Da Silva, Mayk Honório, Chirley Gonçalves Silva, Márcia A. Teixeira-Silva, Marcos Silveira and João Marcelo Alvarenga Braga. 2023. Two New Species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from the Brazilian Amazon Forest.  Phytotaxa. 587(3); 269-282. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.587.3.5