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Afrothismia pachyantha is a small, leafless, fungus-dependent herb from the Burmanniaceae family, known only from wet forest in southwest Cameroon. It cannot be grown as an ordinary garden or houseplant and is threatened by habitat loss.
Afrothismia pachyantha is a species of plant in the family Burmanniaceae. It is a holomycotrophic rhizomatous geophyte endemic to Cameroon. Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland evergreen forests on Mount Cameroon and Mount Kupe at about 700 metres elevation. It is threatened by habitat loss. The species was first discovered in 1905 on Mount Cameroon, where it may be extinct, and rediscovered in 1995 on Mount Kupe, making it a Lazarus taxon.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
