Burmanniaceae

Burmanniaceae is a family of flowering plants, consisting of 99 species of herbaceous plants in eight genera.

Gymnosiphon (yellowseed) is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants from the yam order. Like most of the other members of the family in which the plant is placed (Burmanniaceae), Gymnosiphon is entirely myco-heterotrophic genus that does not contain chlorophyll and respectively does not perform photosynthesis.

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Hexapterella is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It is native to northern South America and to the Island of Trinidad.

Oxygyne is a genus of achlorophyllous mycoheterotrophic plants in the family Burmanniaceae. First described in 1906 by German botanist Rudolf Schlechter with Oxygyne triandra as the type species, six species are currently recognised. The genus has a highly disjunct distribution, with three species known from Japan and three from West-Central Africa, with each species known only from a single location.

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Campylosiphon is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1882. It is native to tropical western and central Africa, as well as northern South America.

Species of mycoheterotrophic plant endemic to Japan

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Marthella is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, Marthella trinitatis, endemic to the Island of Trinidad. It is considered critically endangered and only naturally appears in Northern Range Forest Reserve Section B. As a conservation measure, it is being cared for in the Heights of Aripo Village as a form of ex situ conservation.

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