Via Nautilus:

‘Discovered in the forests of the Thong Pha Phum National Park in Thailand, the leafless “devil flower” looks like a small, charred gremlin staring at you with fiery eyes. In fact, as soon as you see the newly identified plant species Thismia daemona, you understand the nickname. 

The tiny horns protruding from the top and the glaring eyes are actually individual fleshy outer parts of the plant known as tepals, and their color and the lack of leaves gives something else away: There’s no chlorophyll in there, and the plant doesn’t use photosynthesis for nourishment. Instead, T. daemona gets its sustenance from drawing in nutrients through fungi in the soil…’

The newly described Thai “devil flower” is not the first non-photosynthetic plant. It’s certainly unusual but it belongs to a group of fully mycoheterotrophic plants that get carbon from fungi instead of photosynthesis. Many other such plants are already known.