Paepalanthus bromelioides

{{Short description|Species of carnivorous plant}}

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|genus = Paepalanthus

|image = Paepalanthus, Eriocaulaceae.JPG

|image_caption = Paepalanthus, family Eriocaulaceae. Native to cerrado, Brazil. Popular: "Chuveirinho"

|species = bromelioides

|authority = Silv.

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Paepalanthus bromelioides is a species in the flowering plant family Eriocaulaceae. This family is placed in the Poales, close to the Bromeliaceae, whose morphology this genus shares. Paepalanthus bromelioides is native to Cerrado. There is some speculation that the occasional insects trapped in the urn of this plant are evidence of its being a carnivorous plant or protocarnivorous, possible deriving nutrients from termite mounds that termites frequently make in the plants' roots.{{cite journal |last1=Nishi |first1=Aline Hiroko |last2=Vasconcellos-Neto |first2=João |last3=Romero |first3=Gustavo Quevedo |title=The role of multiple partners in a digestive mutualism with a protocarnivorous plant |journal=Annals of Botany |date=January 2013 |volume=111 |issue=1 |pages=143–150 |doi=10.1093/aob/mcs242 |pmid=23131297 |pmc=3523655 |url=https://academic.oup.com/aob/article/111/1/143/182710?login=true |access-date=4 May 2022|doi-access=free }}

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