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Tristicha trifaria

Mexico, same species occurs in Africa
Photos: R. Rutishauser

Tristicha trifaria   Tristicha trifaria
Shoots with flowers on stone (roots more or less hidden)

  Close-up with flowers
Tristicha trifaria   Tristicha trifaria
Ribbon-like roots creeping on stone

SEM graphs of ramuli = photosynthetic shootlets (Rutishauser 1995).
     

 
       
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