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- Title
- <em>Pholisma sonorae</em>
- Author
- Sherwin Carlquist Santa Barbara California USA
- Keywords
- Pholisma sonorae
- Description
- Pholisma sonorae
- Ammobroma (Greek for "sand food") is the common name for this curious desert sand dune plant, a flowering plant parasitic on desert shrubs such as Tiquilia and Eriogonum. The only part of the plant normally visible above the sand surface is the inflorescence, which is 5 to 15 cm in diameter.
Return to the Pholisma sonorae [1] page or the Parasitic Plant Index [2].
- Publisher
- Botanical Society of America
- Additional data
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copyright: Carlquist, BSA
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
- Collection
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Parasitic Plants
- Botanical Name
- <em>Pholisma sonorae</em>
- Common Name
- Sand Food
- Categories
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