''Hirtella physophora'' is a species of plant in the family
Chrysobalanaceae
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of trees and shrubs in 27 genera and about 700 species of pantropical distribution with a centre of diversity in the Amazon. Some of the species contain silica in their bodies for ri ...
. 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.
The effect of habitat fragmentation on communities of mutualists: Amazonian ants and their host plants Emilio M. Bruna, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos and Sylvia Heredia Biological Conservation Volume 124, Issue 2, July 2005, Pages 209-216
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