Lurtress

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Lurtress
(Myriarhizolyra urboalesca)
Artwork of Lurtress
Species is extant.
Creator Jlind11 Other
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Subfamily
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Phoenophyta
Nautophyta
Chorophylla
Auloanthales
Auloanthaceae
Auloanthoideae
Myriarhizolyra
Myriarhizolyra urboalesca
Week/Generation 24/151
Habitat Yokto Temperate Riparian, Drake Temperate Rainforest, Drake Temperate Woodland
Size 3 m Tall
Primary Mobility Sessile
Support Unknown
Diet Photosynthesis
Respiration Passive (Stomata, Aerial Roots)
Thermoregulation Ectotherm
Reproduction Hermaphrodite, Nectar, Wind Spread Seeds

The lurtress split from its ancestor. It has become terrestrial, spreading to the nearby rainforest and woodland biomes. To help support itself outside of the water, its roots have become an organized network of branching buttresses. This adaptation has helped it grow slightly larger. It has thick leaves have become 4 triangular petals. It has become so successful, it has out competed the qupe tree and driven the tribranch grovecrystal into recession.

Individuals live for 40 years, seedlings taking a week to germinate and 2 years to mature. Its resonating fans have become individual lobes to help produce a tone distinctive from its relatives. Like its ancestor and cousins, it will only grow the wind-sensitive resonating strings on its fan's holes when its ready to annually reproduce in the colder months. At the same time, it produces sticky nectar for pollinators (mainly scooters) who have learned to associate the flora's "song" with a sweet meal; the nectar contains reproductive spores that will stick to said pollinators, who will transfer the spores to the next lurtress. Once an individual has been "seeded", the resonating strings will degenerate and the individual will take 2 months to begin collecting enough energy to produce its airborne seeds. Once a seed has been produced and released it will drift around on the wind for a week before taking root to begin growing; the seedling will grow out its roots to their full size by the time its leaves open.