taxonID	type	description	language	source
2D23FAB41B4E52C8AC43E98396CF8278.taxon	description	Figures 1, 2, 3	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Dome, Nikong (2022): Thismia latiffiana (Thismiaceae), an unusual new species from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 188: 105-114, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061
2D23FAB41B4E52C8AC43E98396CF8278.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Thismia latiffiana differs from all its congeners by the following combination of traits: the presence of golden trichomes on the outer surface of floral tube and mitre, outer tepals absent, inner tepals form a mitre without appendages, an inner surface of floral tube covered by pyramidal protuberances and supraconnective bilobed with each lobe terminated by a long, needle-like trichome.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Dome, Nikong (2022): Thismia latiffiana (Thismiaceae), an unusual new species from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 188: 105-114, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061
2D23FAB41B4E52C8AC43E98396CF8278.taxon	materials_examined	Type. Malaysia. Peninsular Malaysia: Terengganu: Setiu District, Hulu Nerus Forest Reserve, approximately 220 m elev., 4 February 2020, Siti-Munirah & Dome Nikong FRI 94686 (holotype KEP!, spirit collection, barcode no. 280004). Herb achlorophyllous, approximately 12 mm tall. Roots loosely coralliform, compressed, light brown, surface covered with trichomes. Stem very short or absent, obscured by trichomes during flowering. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded, scale-like, triangular, apex acute to acuminate, margin entire, 2 - 8 mm long and 1.5 - 2 mm wide, brown. Bract similar to leaves. Flowers actinomorphic, solitary; floral tube 1.2 cm long, ellipsoid to ovoid, widest in middle part (7 - 7.3 mm in diameter), in upper part ca. 6.4 mm wide and at base ca. 6 mm wide, black or dark brown, whitish in upper part with round to oblong sectors (opposite each anther thecae), separated by blackish-brown stripes; surface partially covered with individual unbranched trichomes, stellate trichomes or unbranched trichomes crowded on warts (resembling spines on areoles of cacti); inner surface covered with very thick pyramidal protuberances arranged longitudinally in each section continuously, brown to black at middle towards base, upper part reticulate, light brown. Annulus at apical part of floral tube, dark brown, broadly funnel-shaped, ca. 2.7 mm wide, margin 6 - lobed, glabrous, smooth, and thick. Outer tepals absent. Inner tepals 3, dark brown to blackish, erect and turning inwards, connate at the top forming a mitre without any appendages; mitre black or dark brown, on outer surface partially covered in a patchy manner with individual unbranched trichomes, stellate trichomes or unbranched trichomes crowded on warts (resembling spines on areoles of cacti); glabrous, smooth, blackish-brown on inner surface; mitre openings 3, ca. 3.5 mm x 5.2 mm. Stamens 6, pendent from the apical margin of the floral tube, dark brown; filaments free, short; connectives broad, flattened, laterally fused together and skirt-like, trigonous, ca. 2.4 - 2.7 mm x 1 - 1.4 mm, somewhat raised below thecae, flat on the side pointing to the centre of flower (towards apex); supraconnective apex 2 - lobed, each lobe with solitary transparent needle-like trichomes ca. 0.5 - 0.6 mm long; thecae yellowish, surrounded by tufts of hairs at middle part; lateral appendage protruding towards floral tube, quadrangular, equalling the apex of supraconnective, with a horn-like projection arising from each side, margin shallowly dentate and sparsely hairy; interstaminal glands inserted on the lines of fusion between connectives. Ovary inferior, bowl-shaped, whitish-brown, warty, enveloped by bracts and leaves. Style ca. 0.8 - 0.9 mm long x 0.5 - 0.8 mm wide; stigma deeply trilobed; lobes curved inwards, ca. 2.2 mm long, surface papillose, dark brown. Fruit a cup- or bowl-shaped or pyxidium capsule, 2.6 mm in diameter, dark brown to blackish-brown, borne on an elongated pedicel up to 7 - 10 cm long, distally covered with old dusty trichomes, proximally glabrous.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Dome, Nikong (2022): Thismia latiffiana (Thismiaceae), an unusual new species from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 188: 105-114, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061
2D23FAB41B4E52C8AC43E98396CF8278.taxon	distribution	Distribution. Endemic to Peninsular Malaysia, Terengganu. Currently known only from the type locality.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Dome, Nikong (2022): Thismia latiffiana (Thismiaceae), an unusual new species from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 188: 105-114, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061
2D23FAB41B4E52C8AC43E98396CF8278.taxon	etymology	Etymology. Thismia latiffiana is named in honour of Emeritus Professor Dato' Dr. Abdul Latiff Mohamad, a prominent botanist and conservationist in Malaysia.	en	Siti-Munirah, Mat Yunoh, Dome, Nikong (2022): Thismia latiffiana (Thismiaceae), an unusual new species from Terengganu, Peninsular Malaysia. PhytoKeys 188: 105-114, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.188.77061
