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Image Title: Helosis
Image Credit: Sherwin Carlquist
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The orange-colored polygonal scales of the inflorescence of this Helosis (found near Iquitos, Peru) are beginning to fall off. Revealed underneath are tiny white dots--female flowers. They are among the smallest flowers, if not the smallest flowers, of any flowering plant in the world.

Return to the Helosis page or the Parasitic Plant Index.

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