{"id":123107,"date":"2026-09-06T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T08:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=123107"},"modified":"2026-09-06T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T12:43:12","slug":"thismia-daemona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thismia-daemona\/","title":{"rendered":"Thismia daemona"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Thismia daemona Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists recently discovered a new species of leafless flowering plant named Thismia daemona that grows on the forest floor of a national park in western Thailand.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Thismia daemona<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new species of <\/span><b>leafless flowering plant.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered from Thong Pha Phum National Park in<\/span><b> western <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thailand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thailand<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to <\/span><b>Thismia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a <\/span><b>genus <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of tiny species also known as<\/span><b> &#8220;fairy lanterns.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The distinctive quality of these plants is that they <\/span><b>lack chlorophyll<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>do not carry out photosynthesis.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, they <\/span><b>produce their food from fungi beneath the earth&#8217;s surface<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and also <\/span><b>remain concealed beneath layers of leaf litter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for nearly their entire lives.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thismia daemona plant was found growing at an elevation of approximately 1,000 meters, an unusually <\/span><b>high and seasonally dry setting<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for this genus.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its unusual, almost supernatural appearance inspired its <\/span><b>name<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Thismia daemona<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>&#8220;devil flower.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>flower <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><b>mostly black <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>topped with horn-like appendages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>rise from a dome-shaped &#8220;miter.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Bright reddish-orange patches near the base resemble glowing eyes, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">adding to its <\/span><b>demon-like appearance.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is known from fewer than 50 individuals and has therefore been <\/span><b>provisionally assessed <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as <\/span><b>Critically Endangered. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/trending\/no-sunlight-no-chlorophyll-no-problem-meet-demon-flower-discovered-in-thailand-1788608495222\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>WION<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thismia daemona is a new \u201cfairy lantern\u201d species from Thailand that lacks chlorophyll and depends on underground fungi for food. Read more about Thismia daemona, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,10060,22,23],"class_list":["post-123107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-thismia-daemona","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123107"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123146,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123107\/revisions\/123146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}