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Myrmecodia is a
genus of
epiphytic plants,
present in Indochina, Malesia, Papuasia, and Queensland, Australia. It is one of five ant-plant
genera in the...
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Myrmecodia beccarii, ant-house plant, is an
epiphytic plant on
Melaleuca trees and
others with
spongy bark in the
wetlands and
mangroves of
tropical north...
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Myrmecodia tuberosa, the ant plant, is a
species of
epiphytic plant in the
family Rubiaceae. The
species has a
symbiotic relationship with some ant species...
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Inferior alveolar nerve Surface cavities or pits, such as on the stem of
Myrmecodia species Pits on
honeycombed surfaces such as
receptacles of many angiosperms...
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Myrmecodia lamii is a
myrmecophilous (Ant loving) epiphytic, or
sometimes terrestrial plant in the
Gardenia Family (Rubiaceae) and
native to New Guinea...
- The
species grow in tree
branches and on trunks. Like the
related genus Myrmecodia, they are
known as
antplants or ant-house plants. The type
species is...
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family Rubiaceae contains the most
commonly known tuberous myrmecophyte,
Myrmecodia. Some
plants produce food
bodies for use by
other organisms.
These small...
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fixing bacteria) in
their root nodules. Myrmecophytes,
including Myrmecodia spp. and
Hydnophytum spp., are tree
species that
develop symbiotic ****ociations...
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absorbed by the
lenticular warts in
myrmecophytes like
Hydnophytum and
Myrmecodia.
Myrmecodia uses its
lenticular warts to suck
nutrients from the
insects thrown...
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ranges of
forms of such
domatia are considerable. Some plants, such as
Myrmecodia, grow
large bulbous structures riddled with
channels in
which their ants...
