Thismia americana Pfeiff.

Banded trinity (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Dioscoreales > Burmanniaceae > Thismia

Characteristics

Stems white, 0.3–1 cm. Leaves appressed, white, subulate to ovate, 2–4 × 1.5–3 mm. Flowers white with faint blue-green lobes, 8–15 mm; perianth tube slightly urceolate, 6-lobed; outer lobes recurved, ovate, 2.5–4 mm; inner lobes erect, convergent to connate at apex, linear; annulus 0.5–1.5 mm wide; staminal connectives dilated, connate, forming tube proximal to annulus. Capsules 2–3 mm.
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Stem subterranean, 3–10 mm, with a few minute scales; fl solitary, white and partly bluish-green, partly subterranean, obovoid-oblong, 8–15 mm, inner perianth-segments curved-ascending and connate at the tip. Known only from a wet prairie near Chicago, Ill., and not seen since 1916, the site now destroyed. Late summer. Very similar to T. rodwayi F. Muell., of Tasmania and N.Z.
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Growth form herb
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Distribution

Thismia americana world distribution map, present in United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:252707-2
WFO ID wfo-0000572351
COL ID 7C8C5
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Synonyms

Thismia americana Sarcosiphon americanus