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Hemitomes
Also called Cone Plant, Coneplant
Hemitomes is a monotypic genus of plants containing the single species Hemitomes congestum, which is known as gnome plant and cone plant. This rare and unusual plant is native to the west coast of North America from British Columbia to California, where it grows in dense, dark forests such as the redwood and Douglas-fir forests of the region. This is a small, fleshy, stemless perennial plant forming lumps in the leaf litter. It is white, yellowish, or reddish-pink in color, like Monotropa and other close relatives, little is known about the life cycle of the plant due to its rarity, but it probably obtains its nutrients by parasitizing fungi, that are part of the Russulaceae, in a similar manner to the rest of its tribe of the Monotropeae, so it lacks the green of chlorophyll.
The native range of this species is British Columbia to California. It is a holomycotrophic perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hemitomes by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
