taxonID	type	description	language	source
0C02AA5AE1A1500DA6495FD2F2626DD2.taxon	description	Figs 1, 2, 3	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Suhaida, Mustafa, Eddie, Chan (2022): Thismia limkokthayi (Thismiaceae): A new mycoheterotrophic species from Genting Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia. PhytoKeys 211: 1-11, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453
0C02AA5AE1A1500DA6495FD2F2626DD2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Thismia limkokthayi is distinguished from closely-related species by the following combination of characteristics: black to dark brown floral tube and appendages, the presence of mitre fovea between the bases of claviform appendages, the presence of longitudinal ribs and absent transverse bars on the inner side of the floral tube, the apex of stamens with a central lobe (prolongation of the rib) and two lateral lobes (the tips of each are recurved) and dark purple stigma.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Suhaida, Mustafa, Eddie, Chan (2022): Thismia limkokthayi (Thismiaceae): A new mycoheterotrophic species from Genting Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia. PhytoKeys 211: 1-11, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453
0C02AA5AE1A1500DA6495FD2F2626DD2.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia: Pahang, Bentong District, Genting Highlands, ca. 1137 m elev., 28 April 2022, Siti-Munirah MY, FRI 91138 c (holotype KEP!, spirit collection, barcode no. SC 12022). Achlorophyllous herbs up to ca. 14 cm. Roots coralliform, surface hairy, apices brownish-white. Stems up to ca. 4.5 cm tall or very short (possibly for young plants), ca. 2 - 3 mm in diameter, erect, ascending, white and becoming brownish with age, glabrous, terete. Leaves glabrous, pale brown, dark brown in the upper part or towards the apex, scale-like, triangular-ovate to lanceolate, up to 12 mm long, 3 mm wide at the base, apex acute to acuminate, spirally arranged, more crowded in the upper part of the stem. Floral bracts 3, pale brown to dark brown towards the apex, similar to upper leaves, but slightly larger, 10 - 12 mm long, apex acute to acuminate, 2 mm wide at the base. Pedicels lengthen up to 5 mm during flower growth, 2 - 3 mm wide. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2, opening in succession in the latter case and forming loose monochasial inflorescences, lateral flower located in the axil of one of the floral bracts of the terminal flower and also bearing its own floral bracts; each flower up to 8 cm long (including ovary and appendages); perianth actinomorphic with 6 tepals fused to form a floral tube with a dome-shaped mitre with 3 slender, claviform appendages on its top; floral tube black brownish / brown blackish, urceolate, ca. 20 - 25 mm long, ca. 5 - 10 mm wide, constricted just above the ovary, widest in the upper part; outer surface with 6 longitudinal ribs, glabrous, rough, black to dark brown; inner surface with 6 greenish longitudinal ribs, without transverse bars, black to dark brown; outer tepal lobes 3, brownish orange, minute, ca. 1 mm long, 7 mm wide at base, broadly triangular, erect; inner tepal lobes 3, black to dark brown, thick, cuneate, surface glabrous, apically adnate to form a dome-shaped mitre; mitre with 3 lateral, round-shaped, ca. 8 - 10 mm wide apertures, 3 hood-like accessory lobes, more curved during the early stages of flowering and flattening when the flower is older and matured; mitre appendages each ca. 27 - 30 mm long, their base wide and flattened, forming a fovea in the centre of the mitre, becoming narrower above, claviform at apex, glabrous, dark brown to pale orange towards tip. Stamens 6, pendulous from the apical margin of the floral tube; annulus absent; filaments orange and white, curved downwards, with bases slightly emerged above floral tube apex, not connate, forming 6 apertures apparent when viewed from above; connectives broad, orange-yellowish in lower half and black / dark brown in upper half, laterally connate to form a tube, ca. 12 mm long, each with prominent longitudinal rib extending along the entire length of the inner surface of the connective; supraconnective apex with one central lobe (extension of the rib) and two smaller side lobes with tips recurved inwards / truncate, glabrous; lateral appendage skirt-like, black, protruding towards the floral tube, not reaching connective apex, glabrous including on margins, only sparsely hairy on each horn-like corner; individual stamens with 2 thecae (abaxial, dehiscing towards the inner surface of the floral tube), each theca oblong, 2 mm long; interstaminal glands elliptic-oblong, translucent, inserted on the line of fusion between connectives. Ovary inferior, obconical, ca. 4 - 5 mm long, brown to dark, with 6 longitudinal ribs, unilocular; placentas 3; style short, ca. 0.3 mm long, black / purplish; stigma 3 - lobed, black-purplish, stigma lobe oblong, ca. 3 mm long, folded, bifid at apex, surface slightly papillose. Fruit not observed.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Suhaida, Mustafa, Eddie, Chan (2022): Thismia limkokthayi (Thismiaceae): A new mycoheterotrophic species from Genting Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia. PhytoKeys 211: 1-11, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453
0C02AA5AE1A1500DA6495FD2F2626DD2.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined (paratypes). Peninsular Malaysia: Pahang, Bentong, Genting Highlands, ca. 1137 m elev., 7 April 2022, Siti-Munirah MY, Eddie C & Suhaida M, FRI 91138 a (KEP, spirit collection, barcode no. SC 12021); 7 April 2022, Siti-Munirah MY, Eddie C & Suhaida M, FRI 91138 b (KEP, spirit collection, barcode no. SC 12020)	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Suhaida, Mustafa, Eddie, Chan (2022): Thismia limkokthayi (Thismiaceae): A new mycoheterotrophic species from Genting Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia. PhytoKeys 211: 1-11, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453
0C02AA5AE1A1500DA6495FD2F2626DD2.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Endemic to Peninsular Malaysia, Pahang. Currently known only from the type locality.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Suhaida, Mustafa, Eddie, Chan (2022): Thismia limkokthayi (Thismiaceae): A new mycoheterotrophic species from Genting Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia. PhytoKeys 211: 1-11, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453
0C02AA5AE1A1500DA6495FD2F2626DD2.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Thismia limkokthayi was named in honour of Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, Chairman of the Genting Group, who is closely involved in efforts to develop eco-tourism facilities and amenities supporting the preservation and sustainability of important biodiversity assets and sites in Genting Highlands.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Suhaida, Mustafa, Eddie, Chan (2022): Thismia limkokthayi (Thismiaceae): A new mycoheterotrophic species from Genting Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia. PhytoKeys 211: 1-11, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.211.89453
