Cave-mouth Flower · Antroflora luminis

A spindly perennial 12–20 cm tall. In the poor light its leaves are pale yellow-green and thin, its stem long and slender. The white flower slowly turns to face the single shaft of light entering the cave.

Specimen Plates

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Field Note

Habitat

The mouth of a limestone cave in Southeast Asia. It grows only on the dim rim where a single shaft of light enters, and turns its flower toward that light.

Local name

Light-follower

Folklore

Locally, mornings when the flower turns well toward the light were said to mean fair weather would last.

Locator

Coordinates

16.0°N 107.5°E

The mouth of a limestone cave in Southeast Asia

Record

It blooms at a cave mouth, where a single shaft of light reaches.

The flower keeps following that single shaft of light.

A limestone cave in Southeast Asia.

On the dim rim where a little outside light enters, the Cave-mouth Flower grows.

In the scant light, its leaves are pale yellow-green and thin.

At the tip of a long slender stem, a single white flower opens.

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Classification

Classification & specimen data

Scientific name

Antroflora luminis N. Drei, 2010

Taxonomy

Plantae › Angiosperms › Dicotyledons › Antroflorales › Antrofloraceae › Antroflora › luminis

Voucher

AVF-019 · Holotype
Archive of Vanished Flora (AVF)

Conservation

✝ EX — Extinct Last seen 2013

Collector

N. Drei
2007-08-26

Synonym

Antroopsis luminis M. Castellan, 2005

Protologue (Latin)

Herba perennis, rhizomate tenui, foliis linearibus, inflorescentia pauciflora. Typus: The mouth of a limestone cave in Southeast Asia. Species iam extincta.

Discovered / Described

2007 / 2010

Height

12〜20cm

Life form

Perennial herb

Phyllotaxy

Alternate

Chromosome

2n = 28

Flowering

The season after disturbance (eruption/fire)