''Arachnitis uniflora'', the sole species in the genus ''Arachnitis'', is a non-

photosynthetic Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration, can later be released to fuel the organism's activities. Some of this chemical energy is stored in c ...

species of plant. It is a myco-heterotroph which gets many of its nutrients from fungi of the genus '' Glomus'' which live in its roots. It is native to southern South America (

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, Chile, Argentina) and the Falkland Islands.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Description

Although the fungi in question are in some ways the same kind of

arbuscular mycorrhizae An arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) (plural ''mycorrhizae'', a.k.a. ''endomycorrhiza'') is a type of mycorrhiza in which the symbiont fungus (''AM fungi'', or AMF) penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant forming arbuscules. ( ...

which are found in the roots of many plants, the details of their association with the plant roots differ in key ways (such as the absence of arbuscules).

References

Bibliography

* Corsiaceae Monotypic Liliales genera Parasitic plants Flora of South America Flora of the Falkland Islands {{Liliales-stub