Wild Flowering Plants

Gentianaceae
Voyria tenella   Guilding ex Hook.
Mexico to Tropical America.
Delicate herb growing on leaf litter in lower montane and montane rainforest.
Tiny ephemeral white petals.
It is holomycotrophic (plant deriving its nutrition solely from a mycorrhizal (fungal) symbiosis).
See also Gymnosiphon niveus which does not have the conspicuous tuft of roots.
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