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Cercestis blancii, stem producing numerous successive ramifications once it reaches the branches of the host tree, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, successive ramification complexes once the plant reaches its tree crown support
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Cercestis blancii, successive traumatisms when the stem reaches the upper part of the host tree resulting in the production of many crowded new stems, Campo, Cameroun
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Cercestis blancii, new lateral stem issued from a resting bud, producing a normally developped foliage leaf after just one or two cataphylls, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, siccessive traumatisma and resulting branching
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Cercestis blancii, multiple basal stems complexe due to successive traumatisms, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, ramification nodal complex with two living stems on the left and two dead ones on the top right
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Cercestis blancii, clasping roots at nodes and internodes fixing the stem to supporting branch, Campo, Cameroon
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Patrick Blanc among the freely hanging spiny feeding roots of a Cercestis blancii growin 10 m above along small tree branches, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018
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Cercestis blancii, freely hanging feeding barbed roots, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, freely hanging feeding roots with successive traumatisms and ramification, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Marc Jeanson using protecting gloves to pull down the barbed roots of Cercestis blancii, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018
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Marc Jeanson using protecting gloves to pull down the dreadful barbed roots of Cercestis blancii, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018
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Patrick Blanc, his pants torn by the barbed wire hanging feeding roots of Cercestis blancii, Campo, Cameroun, March 2017
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Cercestis blancii, horizontally growing clasping roots emerging just under the cataphyll node and single vertically growing barbed root emerging just above the node, Campo, Cameroun
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Cercestis blancii, swollen node between cataphyll and foliage leaf from which emerge both the short clasping roots and the unique downward growing spiny feeding root
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Cercestis blancii, insertion of the long spiny feeding root on the thick internode, just above the cataphyll scar, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, young freely hanging feeding root with soft green tissue but spiny emergences already appearing, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, swollen bulk in the feeding root causing tearing of the black epidermis and exposition of the whitish cortex, Campo, Cameroun
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Cercestis blancii, spiny freely hanging feeding root
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Cercestis blancii, recurved spiny emergences on the freely hanging feeding roots, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, spiny feeding roots of the type specimen preserved in alcohol
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Cercestis blancii, a 8 m long spiny feeding root, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, a 8 m long spiny feeding root, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, feeding root creeping on the forest floor,, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, a spiny feeding root branching and creeping horizontally at the surface of the forest soil, just below the layer of leaf litter, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, ramification in the forest soil of the barbed armed feeding root
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Cercestis blancii, feeding root creeping on forest floor, covered by dense hairs and retaining upward spines, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Patrick Blanc holding a spiny feeding root of Cercestis blancii, the distal part excavated from ground being branched, thicker and light brown, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018
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Cercestis blancii, spiny feeding root excavated from forest floor, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, excavated barbed feeding roots densely branched in the soil, Ebodge, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, barbed feeding root, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, a sharply spiny feeding root of the type specimen collected by Patrick Blanc under number 91-249 on 10th Dec. 1991, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, herbarium label of the type specimen collected by Patrick Blanc under number 91-249 on 10th Dec. 1991, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, last leaf of the stem subtending the terminal inflorescence
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Cercestis blancii, terminal inflorescence and other smaller ones from the flowering sympodium, Campo, Cameroon
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Cercestis blancii, inflorescence with spadix fully included in spathe, basal female flowers and the numerous male flowers above
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Cercestis blancii, longitudinal section of spathe and spadix
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Cercestis blancii, congested male flowers, each stamen with a thick connective and pollen extruded throgh the two slits at the top of thecae
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Cercestis blancii, a sketch of spadix by Patrick Blanc when he thought to barbelatus as the species name due to the barbed wire like spiny aerial feeding roots