Flora of Bokor National Park VII: Thismia bokorensis (Burmanniaceae), a new species representing a new generic record

KENJI SUETSUGU; HIROKAZU TSUKAYA; SHUICHIRO TAGANE; PHOURIN CHHANG; TOMOHISA YUKAWA; TETSUKAZU YAHARA

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.334.1.10

Issue: Vol. 334 No. 1: 12 January 2018

Type: Correspondence

Published: 2018-01-12

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.334.1.10

Page range: 65–69

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**Flora of Bokor National Park VII: Thismia bokorensis (Burmanniaceae), a new species representing a new generic record**

KENJI SUETSUGU⁺⁻
HIROKAZU TSUKAYA⁺⁻
SHUICHIRO TAGANE⁺⁻
PHOURIN CHHANG⁺⁻
TOMOHISA YUKAWA⁺⁻
TETSUKAZU YAHARA⁺⁻

Department of Biology, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1 Rokkodai, Nada-ku, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan

Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 13-0033, Japan

Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan

Institute of Forest and Wildlife Research and Development, Forestry Administration, 40 Preah Norodom Blvd, Phnom Penh, Cambodia

Tsukuba Botanical Garden, National Museum of Nature and Science, 4-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0005, Japan

Department of Biological Sciences, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 13-0033, Japan

Thismia bokorensis Burmanniaceae Monocots

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Abstract

The genus Thismia Griffith (1844: 221) of the tribe Thismieae, Burmanniaceae sensu APG IV (2016) or Thismiaceae of other authors, represents one of the most species-rich mycoheterotrophic genera and consists of more than 60 species (Jonker 1948, Merckx 2008). Considering that the majority of these species were collected only once (Jonker 1948), and that many new species have recently been discovered, especially from various Southeast Asian countries (e.g., Tsukaya & Okada 2012, Dančák et al. 2013, Nuraliev et al. 2014, 2015, Truong et al. 2014, Chantanaorrapint & Sridith 2015, Li & Bi 2013, Hroneš et al. 2015, Tsukaya et al. 2017, Suetsugu et al. 2017), many more undescribed species are probably still hidden in the tropical rain forests of Southeast Asia.