Accession Data
Lacandonia schismatica
Family: Lacandoniaceae
Country of Origin: s Mexico
Description: a mycoheterotrophic, hermaphroditic monocotyledon endemic to the Lacandon rain forest of southeast Mexico, is the only flowering plant for which a spatial inversion (heterotopy, complete homeosis) of the reproductive floral whorls (stamens and carpels) is known to occur in natural populations
Accession Data
Accession #: 284
Accession Date: -0001-11-30 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Culture: unknown, plant is a saprophyte, bearing no chlorophyll and requiring a fungal symbiont for survival
Classification
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Liliopsida
Subclass: Alismatidae
Order: Triuridales
Family: Lacandoniaceae
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