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Lacandonia is a genus of small, leafless-looking, non-photosynthetic (mycoheterotrophic) plants in the family Triuridaceae, known for flowers with the male and female parts in reversed positions. Its species grow in the understory of moist Mexican forest and depend on soil fungi rather than sunlight for their energy, so they cannot be grown as ordinary garden plants.
Lacandonia is a mycoheterotrophic plant that contains no chlorophyll and has the unusual characteristic of inverted positions of the male (androecium) and female (gynoecium) floral parts, something that had not been seen in any other plants, with the exceptions of Trithuria and on occasion the related Triuris brevistylis.
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