| Pholisma | |
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| Pholisma arenarium | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Boraginales |
| Family: | Lennoaceae |
| Genus: | Pholisma Nutt. ex Hook. (1844) |
| Species [1] | |
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| Synonyms [1] | |
AmmobromaTorr. (1867) | |
The genus Pholisma consists of three species of desert-dwelling, primarily subterranean plants. Pholisma belongs to the family Lennoaceae. [2] (It may also be placed in a broadly circumscribed family Boraginaceae s.l. [1] )
Most notable of the genus is Pholisma sonorae , native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. The species is without chlorophyll and lives as a parasite on the roots of a number of desert species. Other species include Pholisma arenarium , the "desert Christmas tree", and Pholisma culiacana .
