{"id":546510,"date":"2025-05-09T15:00:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=546510"},"modified":"2025-05-09T15:00:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:00:52","slug":"discreet-and-voracious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/discreet-and-voracious\/","title":{"rendered":"Discreet and voracious"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_546512\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-546512 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-planta-carnivora-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-planta-carnivora-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-planta-carnivora-800-250x234.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-planta-carnivora-800-700x656.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPF-notas-planta-carnivora-800-120x113.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Pedro Lage Viana\u2009\/\u2009INMA<\/span><em>Philcoxia cachimboensis<\/em>, new species of carnivorous plant found in the Amazon<span class=\"media-credits\">Pedro Lage Viana\u2009\/\u2009INMA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Plants of the genus <em>Philcoxia <\/em>have a hidden secret. Amidst the white sand of rupestrian grasslands, the thin stems, which can grow up to centimeters in height and bear delicate lilac flowers, look like a modest little weed. But they are not harmless. Hidden beneath a layer of sand, the rounded leaves, no more than 2 millimeters in diameter, secrete a sticky substance that captures and digests a profusion of tiny nematode worms. A new Amazonian species of the genus, which is more typical of the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes, has been discovered, dubbed <em>P. cachimboensis<\/em>. The carnivorous plants were collected by a botanical team from the Em\u00edlio Goeldi Museum of Par\u00e1 during an expedition to the Cachimbo mountains, on the border between the states of Par\u00e1 and Mato Grosso. Biologist Ray Lopes Neto, who made the discovery during research for his PhD at the Federal Rural University of the Amazon, was surprised to find the species there. The plant was only found in the neighboring municipalities of Novo Progresso and Altamira, with no precise information on the distance between them. An in-depth survey of the region is needed to assess abundance and range of the new species (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scielo.br\/j\/aa\/a\/6GL3hwxDmqByJh8B7wKXDpq\/?format=pdf&amp;lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Acta Amazonica<\/em><\/a>, June).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New species of carnivorous plant typical of the Cerrado and Caatinga biomes discovered in the Amazon","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[206,209,213,200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-546510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biodiversity","tag-biology","tag-botany","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546521,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546510\/revisions\/546521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546510"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=546510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}