Fully mycoheterotrophic plants can be difficult to place in plant phylogeny due to elevated
substitution rates associated with photosynthesis loss. This potentially limits the …

Background Plastomes of heterotrophic plants have been greatly altered in structure and
gene content, owing to the relaxation of selection on photosynthesis-related genes. The …

Thismia is characterized by an exceptionally complicated floral morphology that is currently
not understood properly. In the taxonomic literature, descriptive rather than morphological …

Societal Impact Statement The discovery of a new genus within the family Thismiaceae,
known as fairy lanterns, marks a significant scientific milestone in Japan, a country …

Heterotrophic plants provide intriguing examples of reductive evolution. This is especially
evident in the reduction of their plastid genomes, which can potentially proceed toward …

Afrothismia is a genus of non-photosynthetic mycoheterotrophs from the forests of
continental tropical Africa. Multiple phylogenetic inferences using molecular data recover the …

Anatomy is one of the oldest disciplines of plant science, and there is a huge amount of
accumulated knowledge. At the same time, anatomy is highly important as a linking medium …

Thismia petasiformis is described and illustrated as a new achlorophyllous
mycoheterotrophic species discovered in the Brazilian Amazon Forest. The species belongs …

A new species of Thismia (Thismiaceae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest is described and
illustrated. Thismia cordata belongs to T. subg. Ophiomeris sect. Ophiomeris, and is mainly …

Thismia (commonly known as fairy lanterns) is a genus of strange-looking, elusive, and non-
photosynthetic plants. Thismia kobensis was first discovered in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture …