Thismia sahyadrica Sujanapal, Robi & Dantas 2017
This is the first record of the genus in India (southern Western Ghats), described als Thismia sahyadrica in Sujanapal et al. (2017). The new species is unique in its fusion of five (instead of usually three) tepals to build a mitre above the perianth tube. Accordingly, only one opening leaves access to stamens and stigma. Each tepal lobe has an erect peg-like appandage. The authors see correspondings to sections Geomitra, Sarcosiphon and Scaphiophora (coralloid root system and fused tepals), but due to to the tepal appandages also to sect. Glaciocharis. According to the key provided by Kumar et al. (2017), T. sahyadrica should belong to the latter section. However, as pointed out by Sochor et al. (2018), the infrageneric classification of Thismia needs to be reassassed.