Stemsuckers
Pilostyles
Pilostyles is a genus of flowering plants currently placed in the family Apodanthaceae. It was formerly placed in the Rafflesiaceae. It includes several species of parasitic plants that live inside the stems of other plants and produce tiny flowers that burst through the surface of the host plants' tissue. Plants of this genus are sometimes referred to as stemsuckers.
11 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Thurber's stemsucker
speciesPilostyles thurberi
Pilostyles berteroi
speciesPilostyles berteroi
Pilostyles blanchetii
speciesPilostyles blanchetii
Pilostyles aethiopica
speciesPilostyles aethiopica
Pilostyles mexicana
speciesPilostyles mexicana
Pilostyles hamiltonii
speciesPilostyles hamiltonii
Pilostyles coccoidea
speciesPilostyles coccoidea
Pilostyles boyacensis
speciesPilostyles boyacensis
Pilostyles collina
speciesPilostyles collina
Pilostyles maya
speciesPilostyles maya
Pilostyles haussknechtii
speciesPilostyles haussknechtii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 56577.