Thismia tentaculata K.Larsen & Aver.

Species

Angiosperms > Dioscoreales > Burmanniaceae > Thismia

Characteristics

Plants holomycotrophic. Stems white, unbranched, erect, 2.5-3 cm. Leaves scalelike, 1.5-5.7 × 0.8-1.1 mm. Flowers 1-4, subsessile, with subtending bracts. Perianth tube white, translucent, actinomorphic, urceolate, ca. 7.3 × 4.8 mm, circumscissile. Outer tepals broadly triangular, ca. 1.4 mm, lacking appendage. Inner tepals narrowly triangular, ca. 2.3 mm excluding appendage; appendage orangish red, spreading, filiform, ca. 1.7 cm. Stamens apically connate. Fruit capsule white, translucent, cup-shaped. Seeds ellipsoid. Fl. and fr. Jun-Aug.
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Distribution

Thismia tentaculata world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77091191-1
WFO ID wfo-0000837119
COL ID 7BWBQ
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Synonyms

Thismia tentaculata