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Monophyllaea
One-leaf Plant (Monophyllaea glauca). Each leaf is a separate plant. The whole plant consists of only one leaf.
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Asterids
Order: Lamiales
Family: Gesneriaceae
Subfamily: Didymocarpoideae
Genus: Monophyllaea
Benn. & R.Br.
Species

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Monophyllaea is a genus of plants in the family Gesneriaceae. [1] All the species only have one leaf. (Citation needed) It contains the following species (but this list may be incomplete):

References

  1. ^ Kinoshita, Ayaka; Tsukaya, Hirokazu (January 2019). "One-leaf plants in the Gesneriaceae: Natural mutants of the typical shoot system". Development, Growth & Differentiation. 61 (1): 25–33. doi: 10.1111/dgd.12582. S2CID  56478566.
  2. ^ "Plant living with only one leaf reveals fundamental genetics of plant growth". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 2022-10-10.