Myrmecophyte

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Myrmecodia beccarii is an example of a myrmecophyte. Ants live in its tuberous base. Source: J.D. Hooker, Bot. Mag. via Wikimedia

Plant that lives in symbiosis with ants. Also called an ant-plant.

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