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Hirtella physophora
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Hirtella physophora is a species of plant in the family Chrysobalanaceae. It forms an association with the ant species, Allomerus decemarticulatus. The ants live in honeycombed cylinders they attach to the plant's stems. The plant nearly always has these ants associated with it.
- Family
- Chrysobalanaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Hirtella physophora
- Slug
- hirtella-physophora
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Chrysobalanaceae
- Genus
- Hirtella
- Species
- physophora
- Wikidata QID
- Q5771710
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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