A ‘devil flower’ with no leaves, no branches, no green part has been discovered in a Thai forest, scientists say its bizarre appearance is hiding an even stranger secret
- It has no leaves, no branches and no green parts, and spends much of its life concealed beneath fallen leaves on the forest floor.
- Scientists have now described a bizarre new flowering plant from Thailand, naming it Thismia daemona, the “devil flower”, for its dark, horn-like appearance.
- Details of the discovery were reported by Pensoft Publishers, while the research paper, Thismia daemona (Thismiaceae), a new species from Thailand supported by morphological and molecular evidence, was published in PhytoKeys and is also indexed on DeepDyve.
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- It has no leaves, no branches and no green parts, and spends much of its life concealed beneath fallen leaves on the forest floor.
- Scientists have now described a bizarre new flowering plant from Thailand, naming it Thismia daemona, the “devil flower”, for its dark, horn-like appearance.
- Details of the discovery were reported by Pensoft Publishers, while the research paper, Thismia daemona (Thismiaceae), a new species from Thailand supported by morphological and molecular evidence, was published in PhytoKeys and is also indexed on DeepDyve.
Sources: Times of India