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Genlisea tuberosa
About
Genlisea tuberosa is a carnivorous species in the genus Genlisea that is endemic to Brazil and found only in campos rupestres vegetation. Lacking any roots, it has unpigmented bundles of "rootlike" subterranean organs, technically leaves, which attract, trap, and digest protozoans. This species is unique in the genus in its formation of tubers. As of 2014, Genlisea tuberosa has the smallest known genome of any flowering plant, at 61 Mbp, or 61,000,000 base pairs.
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Genlisea tuberosa
- Slug
- genlisea-tuberosa
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lentibulariaceae
- Genus
- Genlisea
- Species
- tuberosa
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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