#fairylantern — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fairylantern, aggregated by home.social.
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New endangered #FairyLantern plant species discovered in Malaysia https://phys.org/news/2025-03-endangered-fairy-lantern-species-malaysia.html
#Thismia aliasii (Thismiaceae), a #NewSpecies from Terengganu, Peninsular #Malaysia https://phytokeys.pensoft.net/article/136085/
"They are mycoheterotrophic, meaning they do not photosynthesize and instead rely entirely on #fungi for their nutrition. The genus is known for containing species with unusual #flowers that facilitate specialized #pollination mechanisms involving small #insects such as fungus gnats."