Pambion

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Pambion
(Slenderpropagum parapambu)
Main image of Pambion
Species is extant.
Information
CreatorDisgustedorite Other
Week/Generation27/166
HabitatMaineiac Temperate Riparian, Maineiac Montane Riparian, Maineiac Mudflat, Maineiac Marsh, Maineiac Temperate Palus, Maineiac Temperate Mangal
Size30 meters tall
Primary MobilitySessile
SupportCell Wall (Cellulose), Woody Trunk
DietPhotosynthesis
RespirationPassive (Stomata, Lenticels)
ThermoregulationEctotherm
ReproductionSexual (Spores), Asexual (Budding)
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Phoenophyta
Spherophyta
Glycismopsida
Dendropropagnales
Gigapropagnaceae
Slenderpropagum
Slenderpropagum parapambu
Ancestor:Descendants:

The pambion split from its ancestor. It is shorter, narrower, and can grow considerably faster (reaching full size in only around a decade), at the cost of durability. It has notably gained the ability to bud from its roots, forming clonal colonies. It lives mostly in wetlands and floodplains, and unless it has a colony to support it, it is commonly tilted due to the soft, unstable substrate. It generally colonizes a bare patch of wetland before slower-growing trees but does not compete with them very well for space, making it very rare or absent in old growth.

The pambion has gained sexual reproduction. It produces both small, unprotected and large, shelled spores, and the small spores enter the large ones to fertilize them. This increases its genetic diversity and therefore makes it more healthy and successful as a species.