Peltophyllum Caudatum
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''Peltophyllum'' is a genus of myco-heterotrophic
plant Plants are the eukaryotes that form the Kingdom (biology), kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly Photosynthesis, photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight, using chloroplasts derived from endosymbiosis with c ...
s in family
Triuridaceae Triuridaceae are a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including nine genera with a total of approximately 55 known species. All members lack chlorophyll and are mycoheterotrophic (obtain food by digesting intracellular fungi, o ...
, native to southern
South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
. It contains the following species:Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Krauczuk, E.R. & al. (2013). Nuevos registros de plantas micoheterótrofas aclorofiladas para la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina. Bonplandia. Corrientes 22: 131-135. *'' Peltophyllum caudatum'' (Poulsen) R.Schmid & M.D.Turner - Rio de Janeiro *'' Peltophyllum luteum'' Gardner - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay


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Pandanales genera Parasitic plants Triuridaceae {{Pandanales-stub