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Pholisma
Sign in to saveThe genus Pholisma consists of three species of desert-dwelling, primarily subterranean plants. Pholisma belongs to the family Lennoaceae. (It may also be placed in a broadly circumscribed family Boraginaceae s.l.)
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderBoraginales
- FamilyLennoaceae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 28
- With media
- 16
- Family
- Ehretiaceae
- Collections
- SBBG, DCBS-DICTUS-USON, RSA, IBUNAM, ASU, VT
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, MéXico
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The genus Pholisma consists of three species of desert-dwelling, primarily subterranean plants. Pholisma belongs to the family Lennoaceae. (It may also be placed in a broadly circumscribed family Boraginaceae s.l.)
Most notable of the genus is Pholisma sonorae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. The species is without chlorophyll and lives as a parasite on the roots of a number of desert species. Other species include Pholisma arenarium, the "desert Christmas tree", and Pholisma culiacana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pholisma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.