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[edit] Flora
The flora of Ebarkhara is very rich, presenting vegetal and fungi of all the kinds that spread of the mountains to the swamps, of the surroundings of Ertnay to the botton of the rivers.
[edit] Mountain Species
[edit] Acripolegga
This plant has thick leaves made use in some layers to protect it of the cold of mountains during the cold winter and of the intense solar radiation of the summer. It produces a long pole with a floral body in its extremity. In this inflorescence, the flowers are in the interior part of the body and, when they are pollinated, they become the floral body larger and similar to a fiber ans sweet fruit, much appreciated by the Arackrabees. The seeds start to germinate in the interior of the fruit and are dispersed by wind with germination potential. In contrast of the fruit, the leaves are very hard and bitter, disabling its consumption. An alternative use for they is for construction and condiment, but in small amounts, besides being an alternative water source, therefore they act as a cacti.
[edit] Conicorn
As the Acripolegga, the Conicorn has leaves that protect of the adverse ambiental conditions of mountains but, in contrast of it, its leaves are flexible and participate of its reproductive system. In the extremity of each one of its ribbings small nodules of pollen appear. This pollen is gotten loose and been carried out by wind, arriving until the long filaments of the pollinic pipe. These filaments leave the internal flower, that can be compared with a maize spike. When it ripens, the fruit becomes much sweet and is very consumed.
[edit] Petulle
This great fungus grows in the mountains and in colder places. Its main characteristic is the presence of a great central axle of hyphae, of which breaks some ramifications that originate its fine veil. To hinder that the veil closes, some hyphae leave of the central portion and form diverse 'feet', that liberate some acid substances capable to dissolve the rock and to allow its setting. The spores are produced in the extremities of hyphae that they originate the veil. When the spores are mature, the portion of the veil that is on the esporos opens a kind of window, allowing that the spores are loaded by wind. After the dispersion of spores the window doesn't close and, with the time, the veil more becomes more pierced. In virtue of acid liberate, this fungus isn't consumed and forms great groupings in the top of the mountain.
[edit] Swamp Species
[edit] Ugampmoss
The Ugampmoss is a curious plant. Although don't be very high it is very large. Its main root isn't very deep and is extended for the ground. The other roots are moved away in the central base and penetrate in waters of the swamps, as well as the twigs, that absorb some minerals dissolved in the water but also they are vulnerable to the invasion by parasites. It produces only some flowers, that fertilizated generate resinous fruits in layers, a similar structure to the bulb of the onions. The seeds contained in this fruit are winged and are carried by wind, to the measure that the fruit loses its external layers. This resinous fruit is used as raw material for some fuels, together with other materials.
[edit] Varchella
This also is a very interesting plant. Sight of far the Varchella can seem a very common tree, but seen of close its characteristics are easily observed. In contrast with the conventional plants, it has some orbicular leaves, made use around the form plant to absorb light of the main points of orientation. These leaves also are very dense and store a good amount of water. Another characteristic is the localization of its flowers, that appear in the finest roots of the Varchella. These flowers have petals that they are resembled to the pens. The pollen is located in the center of the flower and is loaded to the pollinic pipe (the connecting rod of the petals) by small animals or by wind, arriving until the ovary, that ripens and forms a small fruit. This fruit can free itself of the flower and be loaded by wind. This is one of the main plants used for the attainment of pollen in virtue of the properties of its finer roots, that can be separately planted. When this operation is made the organism of the plant 'feels' threatened and starts to produce many flowers to guarantee its survival, what it fills good part of the reserves of pollen of the Arackrabees during the winter.
[edit] Jetungi
This is an interesting species. The Jetungi is a fungus where hyphae form a deep base in the ground and the basidium is inverted and flexible, allowing the retention of the rain water. In the end of the summer, when it starts to rain, it holds back the water and its lamellae (that hold the spores) start to wet for capillarity. Its spores are covered by a fine skin that, when in contact with the water, hydrates and becomes a gelatinous material. When hydrated, the spores are set free and start to be immersed in the pool created in fungus. Next to the base to the central column they are diverse pores for where the spores enter and remain in the interior of a chamber, located on a sensible region to pressure variations. When the pool starts to full, the water makes the basidium to be more open and the pressure exerted for the water on the base of the basidium increases, until a limited point, where all the water contained in the interior of fungus is expelled, creating a hydrated spores cloud over the mushroom. These spores are loaded by wind and can be fixed in any place. The growth of this fungus occurs during the long winter, developing its basidium and the spores in the beginning of the summer.
[edit] Land Species
[edit] Orosopic
This plant is a constant threat for the Arackrabees. It needs to be cut often to hinder that it eats those that leave of Ertnay. Although of to be pretty it is a carnivorous plant and grow as a liana, skirting locks it of Ertnay. It developed digestive enzymes and this habit to eat other organisms to supply its necessity of energy, a time that little light is absorbed by its trunk. Its flowers are very great and close very fast when something stops on them, nourishing it and favoring the formation it fruit. Although to be a threat it also can be used as firewood source, as material base for fuels (fruit) and as condiment. When mature the fruit falls in the soil, allowing that to be collected.
[edit] Piarqej
The Piarqej is a plant similar to a cacti. It grows generally on others, as the Ertnay, and can become relatively high. Its only limitation is the presence of the wind, that can knock down it. Its body is organized in buds, that increase to the measure that they blossom. The flower originates a small string bean with about six seeds, that if breach and launch the seeds for a distance of up to three meters of the mother-plant. This distance can be a little longer for the fruits located in higher twigs of the Piarqej. When the fruit falls a new segment it's developed and the plant grows a little more.
[edit] Riallastar
This great flower in star form possess an interesting strategy of support. Although to have small roots and these to be only superficial the plant has a great central and deep root and is remained of foot thanks to its petals, that form a firm base for its sustentation. After the fertilisation the flower it's closed and protect the fruit, that could only be harvested when the flower opens again. This great fruit can be consumed and in its interior they are thousand of small seeds of seven tips that, when in the ground, they roll until a place where they can be fixed and germinate.
[edit] Paroppu
This fungus grows mainly over other organisms and on Ertnay's trunk. Its setting hyphae penetrates deeply in the trunk and forms a very strong support. The spores produced drain for the lateral filaments, where they remain adhered the small nodules of a gelatinous material, that supplies the necessary humidity its development. To the few, the spores are freed and fall in the ground or, due to movement of the filaments, they create new points of growth on the trunk. Due to presence of the gelatinous material, the spores can adhere to animals and be loaded for more distant places. In the central region, next to the Paroppu base, a sweet substance is secreted, of which the Arackrabees use to feed. A utility found for this fungus was to facilitate the displacement of the Arackrabees for the external part of Ertnay. The Arackrabees collects its spores and they distribute them in strategical points so that, when total developed, they can act as steps and form a kind of external stairs.
[edit] Water Species
[edit] Flobae
This is an aquatic plant very interesting. As the other aquatic plants of Ebarkhara the Flobae doesn't have seeds but it presents two forms of propagation. In diverse points of its body nodules of small germinative cells appear, that grow and form a gel capsule. In these capsules the new embryos nourish and form little plants that they breach the capsule and are dispersed in the water. Through these capsules also the second form of propagation occurs. When twigs with these capsules come close to the ground they are are deformed and arrested it above the ground, breaching the trunk a little above, generating a new plant that develops near to the mother-plant.
[edit] Ruvillo
This is a small vegetable responsible for the great viscosity of waters of the swamps and for increasing the concentration of oxygen in atmosphere, a time that most part of its external structure has photosyntetic capacity. For not having roots, the Ruvillo absorbs the water and the dissolved minerals through its pores, float in the water and are fertilized when a flower 'kisses' another one, forming a small embryonic cell in the center of each Ruvillo. When the waters heat, the Ruvillo is become enlarged and the embryonic cells leave through the pores (increased due to expansion of the body of the plant). When all the flowers will be fertilizaded the Ruvillo die therefore don't have more embryos to be set free. Each embryonic cell grows until acquiring the adult size, developing its flowers and continuing the cycle.
[edit] Dengiro
This unicellular alga is multiplied for binary division and can be colonial or isolated. It's the base of the food chain being food for the Guaanies, Mupsihs and other animals of the caves. They orient themselves by chemotaxis and agitate its two flagella to come close of the source of the stimulaton. Its cells present five psedopods in each extremity of the cell and use them to fix it to other Dengiros and to form long ribbons, that if twist and involve larger organisms and plant roots, as the Ugampmoss. Each Dengiro produces digestive enzymes that are set free for the external environment, digest the place where they are fixed and they absorb the nutrients. When in colony they can become predators of its main natural predator, the Guaanie, a time who can cover all its body and absorb it totally.
[edit] Hastungi
This is a very simple aquatic fungus. It used to arrest to the ground of the rivers or any organic support, liberating enzymes through its hyphae of the base that allow the absorption of the nutrients that it needs. These fungi form great groupings in the deep of the rivers and, after adults, they produce spores continuously. Its spores go very far due to the movement of waters, but they are set free only at some moments. In the most part of the time the basidium remains closed, liberating the spores only when it will be very full.
[edit] See Also
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