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Thismia melanomitra is a tiny, fully mycoheterotrophic herb of the Burmanniaceae family, endemic to Ecuador and living in shaded tropical moist lowland forest. It is not a garden or houseplant and cannot be grown in cultivation; it survives only by drawing nutrients from fungi in the forest floor.
Thismia melanomitra is a species of plant in the Burmanniaceae family. It is endemic to Ecuador. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Thismia melanomitra 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.
