Thismia aurantiaca Hareesh & M.Sabu
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https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.682.3.6 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16711020 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB9E7C-DE46-192A-FF74-F8DBFC5956CF |
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Felipe |
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Thismia aurantiaca Hareesh & M.Sabu |
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2. Thismia aurantiaca Hareesh & M.Sabu View in CoL in Hareesh et al. (2018: 135).
Type: — INDIA. [Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory:] Andaman Islands, South Andaman Island, Mount Harriet [Mount Manipur] National Park, elevation ± 320 m, 7 August 2017, M. Sabu & V. S. Hareesh 152774 (holotype CALI, isotypes CAL, PBL).
Distribution: — India (Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory).
Notes: — Thismia aurantiaca differs remarkably from the other members of Thismia sect. Mirabiles in the flower coloration. While the flowers of the other seven species are coloured with white combined with bluish/brownish/ greenish black, T. aurantiaca has white with orange (to light brown) flowers, lacking any blackish hues. Furthermore, the annulus of T. aurantiaca is unusually short (ring-like, in contrast to the dome-shaped to vertically elongate one in the other species). The sectional placement of T. aurantiaca remains therefore somewhat tentative, and is to be verified through the inclusion of the species into molecular phylogenetic analyses.
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