"Arachnid flower," a rare strange flower. In the middle of the middle forest.

Arachnid blossoms, no chlorophyll, live along the roots of living plants, flowers and stems out of the underground head.

The flowers are single-sex, smelly, cup-shaped bracts, cones with 3 - 4 oval scales arranged, each with 5 scales, oval-shaped parallel-border buds, 4.7 - 6.5 centimeters in diameter, supine bell-shaped flowers, short petal tubes, pale yellow petals, dark to brown ends, 16 petals in total, narrow triangular, 5-10 centimeters long, arranged in parallel.

The ends of the petals are rigid, tail-like long, 2.5-5 centimeters long, in the female flowers slightly shorter, with radial streaks, with thin, branched hairs and flakes (ramenta), dark brown, dense, long hairs 0.6 - 1 centimeters, the ends are branched hooks, the flakes are 0.5 - 2 millimeters long, bulbous, 1.3 - 1.7 centimeters diameter, in the male flowers, in the female flowers, slightly larger.

On the outside, there are 3 - 6 millimeters of long hair, shaven or sporadic hair, 1.2 - 2.2 centimeters of long pollen, in the middle of a round pollen shaft, a bulbous, pink-brown bulbous top, with openings, hairs, a lot of anthers, arranged in rings, with two nested, reduced in female flowers, attached in small rows, a female stalk, 4.5 - 7 millimeters long, a fascia-like female stamen peak, 6.5 - 9.5 millimeters wide.

It is found on the Malayan Peninsula, Sumatra and southern Lower Thailand at Narathiwat, up along the forest, reaching a height of about 450 meters.

Source: Bang Lang National Park - Bang Lang National Park, Yala Province, Conservation Area Administration Bureau at 6 Pattani Branch

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