''Peltophyllum'' is a genus of

myco-heterotrophic Myco-heterotrophy (from Greek μύκης , "fungus", ἕτερος ', "another", "different" and τροφή ', "nutrition") is a symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food fro ...

plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...

s in family

Triuridaceae Triuridaceae are a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants, including nine genera with a total of approximately 55 known species. All members lack chlorophyll and are mycoheterotrophic (obtain food by digesting intracellular fungi, o ...

, native to southern

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...

. It contains the following species:Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Krauczuk, E.R. & al. (2013). Nuevos registros de plantas micoheterótrofas aclorofiladas para la provincia de Corrientes, Argentina. Bonplandia. Corrientes 22: 131-135. *''

Peltophyllum caudatum ''Peltophyllum'' is a genus of myco-heterotrophic plants in family Triuridaceae, native to southern South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relative ...

'' (Poulsen) R.Schmid & M.D.Turner - Rio de Janeiro *''

Peltophyllum luteum ''Peltophyllum'' is a genus of myco-heterotrophic plants in family Triuridaceae, native to southern South America. It contains the following species:Krauczuk, E.R. & al. (2013). Nuevos registros de plantas micoheterótrofas aclorofiladas para la ...

'' Gardner - Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay

References

Pandanales genera Parasitic plants Triuridaceae {{Pandanales-stub