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lfceriotti.bsky.social
Excited to share this preprint! Really nice collaborative work on the fascinating Balanophoraceae
January 13, 2026 at 9:20 PM
sloanevolab.bsky.social
Balanophoraceae species parasitize other plants and exhibit numerous changes in organellar translation, including an altered plastid genetic code (UAG > Trp) mediated by duplication of a nuclear tRNA-Trp and substitution in its anticodon…

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Balanophora laxiflora. Photo credit: Renchao Zhou
January 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
plazi-species.bsky.social
#NewSpecies!
Balanophora xinfeniae
A newly discovered #balanophoraceae from #china!

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8D91C8DC-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
#Phytokeys #BalanophoraXinfeniae

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #ecology #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #flowers #plants
Balanophora xinfeniae, habitat.
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
phytokeys.pensoft.net
Researchers describe 𝐵𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑎 𝑥𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑎𝑒, a newly discovered parasitic flowering plant in the family Balanophoraceae.

🔗 doi.org/10.3897/phyt...
November 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
botanistlaura.bsky.social
I enjoyed this, it's always great to hear people enthuse about plants (this one's Dactylanthus, Balanophoraceae), the NZ accents are also lovely
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
coleopsoc.bsky.social
#LiteratureNotice Silva Medeiros et al. Beetle Pollination in the #Holoparasitic Lophophytum pyramidale (Balanophoraceae): A New Case of Brood-Pollination Mutualism? doi.org/10.1111/jen.... doi.org/10.1111/jen.... #Beetle #Beetles
Beetles visiting the flowers of Lophophytum pyramidale L.J.T. Cardoso and J.M.A. Braga. (a) A female of Oxycorynus nigripes Kuschel, 1959 on male flowers; (b) A male of O. nigripes landed on anthers with its body covered with pollen. Scale bars: 1 mm; (c) Oxycorynus melanocerus Chevrolat, 1832 and O. nigripes among female flowers; (d) two individuals of O. melanocerus in between the female flowers; (e) A male of O. melanocerus above the ground near the female flowers; (f) Mystrops sp. on male flowers. Scale bars: 2 mm.
October 7, 2025 at 12:29 AM
fuck.ispost.ing
fuck Balanophoraceae
April 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
manila-folder.bsky.social
ah yes, this and the physiologically similar but unrelated Balanophoraceae - the poster children of the "doctrine of signatures..."
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January 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
annbot.bsky.social
📚💡The study analyzed data on host preferences of holoparasitic plants, collecting info from literature and herbarium specimens. The goal? Investigate how host diversity and specificity vary across parasitic species. (3/8)
Figure showing host-parasite interactions across holoparasitic plants. Arrows represent parasite-host interactions across all nine holoparasite lineages, presented on a family-level seed plant phylogeny (tree from Li et al., 2019), with major clades highlighted and labelled. For each lineage, the following information is provided: family, order, mode of parasitism, the number of parasite genera and species within that lineage, and a photograph of an example species. Photo credits: Hydnoraceae, Orobanchaceae = Sebastian Hatt; Lennooideae = Joyce Cary; Mitrastemonaceae = Dokudami; Balanophoraceae, Rafflesiaceae, Cytinaceae, Cynomoriaceae = Chris Thorogood; Apodanthaceae = Kevin Thiele.
October 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM
scottzona.bsky.social
Sharing this reply (on that other site) to my posts about cultivated #parasiticplants. 🤯😍 Balanophora (#Balanophoraceae) successfully cultivated! It is a holoparasite, i.e. it has no chlorophyll so is completely dependent on its host, Pittosporum (#Pittosporaceae), for water & nutrients. #Botany 🌾🧪
A screen capture showing two photos of a yellow parasitic plant erupting from the soil of a potted plant. The text reads "Balanophora tobiracola successfully grown in Tsukuba Botanical Garden, Tsukuba, Japan. I sowed seeds in the pot of one of its hosts Pittosporum tobira and emerged three years later."
February 15, 2024 at 9:41 AM
sketchynews.net
[Phys.Org]Parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh—it's also an extreme example of genome shrinkage - Phys.org If you happen to come across plants of the Balanophoraceae family in a corner of a forest, you might easily mistake them for fungi growing around tree roots. Their...
September 23, 2023 at 9:45 AM
news-feed.bsky.social
@SkyNews: The mushroom-like balanophoraceae may look like fungi, but are actually a cluster of flowers called inflorescences https://t.co/3deqInqWCs
September 21, 2023 at 6:55 PM