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Paepalanthus argenteus
About
Paepalanthus bromelioides is a species in the flowering plant family Eriocaulaceae. This family is placed in the Poales, close to the Bromeliaceae, whose morphology this genus shares. Paepalanthus bromelioides is native to Cerrado. There is some speculation that the occasional insects trapped in the urn of this plant are evidence of its being a carnivorous plant or protocarnivorous, possible deriving nutrients from termite mounds that termites frequently make in the plants' roots.
- Family
- Eriocaulaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Paepalanthus argenteus
- Slug
- paepalanthus-argenteus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Eriocaulaceae
- Genus
- Paepalanthus
- Species
- argenteus
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 28
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