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Thismia megalongensis is a rare, tiny, fully mycoheterotrophic herb with no green leaves that lives on fungi in the soil. It is known only from the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, so it is not a plant home gardeners can grow.
Thismia megalongensis is a seldom seen species of flowering plant in the Burmanniaceae family. It is endemic to the Blue Mountains region, west of Sydney. Described in 2014 from a plant collected from the Megalong Valley.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thismia megalongensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
