A newly discovered Brazilian plant carefully bends down to plant its fruit under moss and soft soil.
A new species of Spigelia Loganiaceae, Spigelia genuflexa, from the Atlantic forest of northeastern Bahia, Brazil is a geocarpic species.
After the fruit matures, the branches bend down towards the ground and deposit the fruit on the surface, sometimes burying it under soft ground cover such as moss or loose soil.
The species is a short-lived annual, apparently restricted to the sandy-soil habitat of the Atlantic forest of northeastern Bahia, with variable and heterogeneous microenvironment, and is known from only two restricted localities.
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