The thick trunked quilbil split from its ancestor, the quilbil and specialized to life in the Chum Salt Flats. The trunk has evolved into a huge water reservoir allowing them to grow on the salt flats where water truly is scarce. To cope with the high salinity they also excrete salt through their stem. To reproduce they no longer rely on berries but pollen and airborne seeds, the "bud" in the top-center of the plant is where the seeds are produced.
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)
