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pachyrodiciphytes, more commonly called a tuber lump, these waxy sedereamischos litter the maschoran deserts and function much like telluric pando tree, being a clonal colony, there are still many individual colonies, but regardless a large amount of ramets will litter the surface of the maschoran deserts, under the sand their roots contain many tubers, and many desert dwelling ◗ta in the past used to farm parchyrodiciphytes for said tubers, for both consumption and feed for domesticated seelenlos, many seelenlos native to the maschoran deserts will dig up the sand around tuber lumps and eat said tubers, some organisms subsist entirely off of these tubers, such as desert worms, blight frills, and even young macrodermaderes, if you have any questions about this sedereamischos please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

ammonianthus, more commonly called an ammonia flower, this large sedereamischos exists exclusively in the oases that cover the desert, it is unknown how they manage to exist inside almost every oasis, its theorized that macrodermaderes young bring their seeds to other oases, the large fruit in the middle is analogous to a compound fruit, and has a thin “wooden” core going through the centre of it that usually get eaten alongside the fruit, they produce large quantities of quasiammoniaphobic nectar which will coat the core and sections of the leaves around the core, which somacephalus consume and help pollenate the ammonianthids in their habitat, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than overjoyed to answer

ropalomycete, more commonly called a club wart, these solumykitas are small and hardy only sprouting fruiting bodies after quasiseasonal floods, they create a large net of roots underneath the sands of the maschoran desert, which sometimes get disconnected from the rest of the net during windstorms and even dislodged from dunes it exists in, the fruiting body is covered in thousands of tiny holes which release large quantities of spores which will grow into their own subsurface net structure which has a chance of merging with its parent or another club wart, if you have any questions about this solumykitas please dont be afraid to ask im more than overjoyed to answer

pseudokladi, more commonly called a bifurcated branches, are parasitic sedereamischos which build themselves around the trunks of the trees of maschoras forests, they also put their hardy seeds into the fruits and nuts of the trees they attach themselves too, due to the nature of most trees in the maschoran forest, pseudokladi act as the branches that make up the canopy in these forests, when they first grow they are a small hardy piece of moss with roots that will search for the nearest tree, usually when they find the tree they will make a small spur of moss near the base of the tree and then absorb the roots they produce from their starting point and move towards the tree and start building up the tree and branching out with leaves and such, if you have any questions please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

chartipteris, more commonly called a seed fern, are sedereamischos which superficially resemble telluric ferns, they grow seeds off the base of their stem and slowly push them up as they develop, eventually growing into small burr like structures which latch onto the seelenlos which eat them and allows them to spread fast, their closest living relatives the mountain dwelling herbanumquam, though relying primarily on the burrs for reproduction their seeds if undisturbed enough will form into a durable shell surrounding the seed creating a nut like structure which will be eaten by herbivorous seelenlos and passed through their digestive system to a newer location, if you have any questions please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

pyrgoanthus, more commonly called a village flower, are odd sedereamischos which fill the clearings of the maschoran forests, they photosynthetic tower converged on the wreath on a drekols tail, the flowers surrounding the tower cannot survive without being connected to the root system of a pyrgoanthus due to the lack of photosynthetic cells, the “petals” of pyrgoanthid flowers are a tough stiff material, presumably derived from the wood that makes them up, the leaf on the top of the tower is surrounded with small pores releasing a constant flurry of spores which are designed to glide for kilometres until they interact with another pyrgoanthid which they will then absorb the genetic material and impliment it into their fruit that they reproduce once they have enough resources and gamates, the leaf on the top of their tower will slowly grow into a bright red fruit, if you have any questions about this sedereamischos please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

xyloendodendron, more commonly called tree fuzz, are small minimalistic parasitic sedereamischos, they will cover the trunks of the trees and can reproduce in two ways, either through budding, or through latching their moss filaments onto arboreal seelenlos which will eventually fall off onto a new spot in the maschoran forest and grow into a new xyloendodendron, they can get out of hand rather fast when a tree is young or dying, being able to cover an entire tree over the span of a year if uninterrupted, their roots absorb nutrients from the trees trunk and let them last without photosynthetic material for several days even when fully mature, if you have any questions about this seelenlos please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

cyclotrypta, more commonly called a eyed wart, are small highly toxic solumykitas, which produce more spores than any known maschoran solumykitas, widely considered to be a bad omen in ◗ta, due to the toxicity and spore production usually causing nearby seelenlos to become sick over prolonged exposure, while it is usually not fatal and can be treated the sickness is painful and debilitating, though most seelenlos just steer clear of cyclotryptas, some ostoexoapo have adapted to survive near it and even eat them, such as xenodiaitapterus and mixistoma, xenodiaitapterus being scavengers will be in prolonged contact with cyclotrypta and having the ability to be immune is almost a necessity, though some xenodiapitapterus have taken it even a step further and have started eating the cyclotrypta, whereas mixistoma are only immune during adulthood which means they have to build their nursery in places where the spores could not possibly reach, mixistoma will use the toxicity as a defense to keep their colonies safe, some colonies even going so far as to feed the eyed wart, as a rudimentary form of domestication, if you have any questions about this solumykitas please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

laspamallia, more commonly called a moss slime, are amorphous nodomusco, which grow on any solid surface, including sturdy sediment and other sedereamischos, the grow a filimentous layer of slime and will grow large extensions off of it which flow in the currents, they are a very common food item for almost every aquatic herbivorous seelenlos, and even terrestrial herbivores when they find it, they reproduce asexually through a mix of budding and regenerating their remains when they get eaten similar to telluric echinoderms, like most simple nodomusco they blur the line between colonial and multicellular, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

pefkorgi, more commonly called a spiked spire, are large amphimischos found frequently in forestbound lakes though can be found in rivers and streams and such, their spikes are photosynthetic and will slowly collapse into tough leaflike structures as they grow, they will move towards nearby movement, this behaviour is theorized as a way to defend themselves from being grazed upon, though this behaviour has given them the adaptation of reproducing through the spines that break off when they move, the behaviour of them moving has given them a bad reputation among ◗ta fishermen due to them interfering with their attempts at fishing, cutting fishing lines, stabbing them when they are in the ammonia, though their spines are tough and hard to eat, they have a soft spot on the top of their spire where they grow their spikes, this portion is rather soft and about as nutrient rich as the rest of the spikes, if you have any questions about this amphimischos please dont be afraid to ask

arthrokalami, more commonly called a jointed stick, are tall sedereamischos which grow in distinct segments, they have a tuber at their base which all their roots grow out of and arthrokalami grow out of the top of this tuber, they will grow continuously till they reach the surface of the ammonia they reside in, they rely on common cliptooth to prune them so they dont reach that height since their segments will start to deform if they try to grow without ammonia to grow into, they reproduce purely asexually when their roots are separated through any sort of means, their root systems tend to be rather extensive containing multiple stick producing tubers, if you have any questions about this seelenlos please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

kamapanahyl, more commonly called a bell wart, are aquatic solumykitas which have deceptively converged on telluric mushrooms, unlike most telluric mushrooms they produce spores from all over their fruiting body instead of the bottom of their bell, has thin root like structures going all around the lakebeds and riverbeds and will braid them together into sturdy supports to keep their fruiting body in one position, they are very nutritious when prepared right, usually through a form of pickling which softens the wood into a more squishy meat like texture, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

a middle aged drekol named letak, they are part of the crew of a freelance multipurpose transportation vessel known as the voidray, they are the sole survivor of a tragic engine failure and still suffer the effects of it decades later, this is the first art of the new drekol design, alongside the ap i will be updating currently existing drekol to be in their newer design, just like the ap with new information

the drekol representative in the ◗ta empires empirical court and political leader of lotred, the matriarch, is a desertborn drekol, and wishes to be favoured by the empress, almost idealizing her, she will stop at no length to be on the empresses good side

Some concepts of "trees"on Maya1b

Essentially, all "trees" on this world are structures formed by symbiotic association between algae and a mass of colonial organisms, which has the added benefit of giving them a lot of these "plants" (especially smaller ones) nifty mixotrophic mode of nutrition, a trait pretty beneficial in the ever changing climate of this world

In essence this means, if things get really tough, the "plants" may in fact start becoming mobile and actively start hunting animals, blurring the lines between what constitutes a plant or not

How much of this behavior a plant shows varies from time to time & species to species

Oh this is how they're coloured btw

There's also a whole other story about their reproduction which is modelled after cnidarians and mosses buuuut thats a story for another time