Pour Puff

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Pour Puff
(Clinothammus push)
Main image of Pour Puff
Species is extinct.
21/?, unknown cause
Information
CreatorBuilding Blocks Other
Week/Generation20/132
HabitatDarwin Tropical Woodland
Size70 cm tall
Primary MobilitySessile
SupportUnknown
DietPhotosynthesis
RespirationPassive (Stomata)
ThermoregulationEctotherm
ReproductionSexual (Puff-Seed Nuts)
Taxonomy
Domain
Kingdom
Subkingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Superfamily
Family
Genus
Species
Eukaryota
Phoenoplastida
Phoenophyta
Rhagioanthia
Phoenocarpopsida
Phoenocarpales
Cryoanthacea
Cryoanthaceae
Clinothammus
Clinothammus push
Ancestor:Descendants:

The pour puff split from its ancestor, the pufftower in Darwin Tropical Woodland. It has grown smaller then its ancestor. Due to this it can't spread its seeds by wind anymore. To overcome the need for wind, the pour puff grows puff-seed covered nuts that are pushed out of the bowl of leaves by newer growth. Once the leaves push them far enough, the nuts fall to the ground, breaking and scattering the seeds within. The leaves are shaped to be able to send the nuts some distance away before falling.

It no longer split from its roots to reproduce, and rely mainly on delivering the nuts away from the stem. Each year, for a week at a time, it produces nectar, this is to attract herbivores to drink from it and take the seeds before they are covered with the puffy nutshell. After the nectar is consumed to its fullest, the pour puff then starts generating the puff-seed nuts.

Living Relatives (click to show/hide)

These are randomly selected, and organized from lowest to highest shared taxon. (This may correspond to similarity more than actual relation)
  • Snow Puff (family Cryoanthaceae)
  • Arid Puffgrass (superfamily Cryoanthacea)