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Thismia neptunis Beccari, 1878:251

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

 

 

Conservation Status

Last record: April 1866

Rediscovered in January 2017

 

Distribution

Sarawak, Malaysia

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Original scientific description:

Beccari, O. (1878) Burmanniaceae. Malesia 1: 240-253.

 

Other references:

Dančák, ‪Martin, Hroneš, ‪Michal and Sochor, Michal. (2020). Thismia: the rarest of the rare? Ranges of some Bornean species are much larger than previously believed. Phytotaxa 455(4): 245-261. [Abstract]

Garrett, Natalie, Viruel, Juan, Klimpert, Nathaniel, Gomez, Marybel Soto, Lam, Vivienne K. Y., Merckx, Vincent S. F. T. and Graham, Sean W. (2023). Plastid phylogenomics and molecular evolution of Thismiaceae (Dioscoreales). American Journal of Botany 110(4): e16141. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.16141

Merckx, Vincent, Schols, Peter, Kamer, Hiltje Maas-van de, Maas, Paul, Huysmans, Suzy and Smets, Erik. (2006). Phylogeny and evolution of Burmanniaceae (Dioscoreales) based on nuclear and mitochondrial data. American Journal of Botany 93(11): 1684-1698. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.93.11.1684

Sochor, Michal et al. (2018). Rediscovery of Thismia neptunis (Thismiaceae) after 151 years. Phytotaxa 340(1): 71-78.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bizarre-plant-not-seen-150-years-found-sarawak-180968413/

http://vanishingflora.proboards.com/thread/3928/thismia-neptunis

 

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