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  • Patrick Blanc holding Cercestis blancii, his pants torn by the barbed wire hanging feeding roots, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon, March 2017, photo by Innocent Medjo

    Patrick Blanc holding Cercestis blancii, his pants torn by the barbed wire hanging feeding roots, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon, March 2017, photo by Innocent Medjo

  • Patrick Blanc holding the first collected specimen of the new Cercestis species that he discovered during the Canopy Raft expedition, Campo, Cameroon on 10th Dec. 1991. and now named Cercestis blancii, 34 years later, photo by Pascal Héni

    Patrick Blanc holding the first collected specimen of the new Cercestis species that he discovered during the Canopy Raft expedition, Campo, Cameroon on 10th Dec. 1991. and now named Cercestis blancii, 34 years later, photo by Pascal Héni

  • Radeau des Cimes, the Canopy Raft on primary forest canopy where Cercestis blancii was discovered by Patrick Blanc, during the Scientific expedition from Oct. to Dec. 1991, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, photo  Dany Cleyet-Marrel

    Radeau des Cimes, the Canopy Raft on primary forest canopy where Cercestis blancii was discovered by Patrick Blanc, during the Scientific expedition from Oct. to Dec. 1991, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, photo Dany Cleyet-Marrel

  • Patrick Blanc with other scientists on the Radeau des Cimes, Canopy Raft, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Nov. 1991, photo by Dany Cleyet-Marrel

    Patrick Blanc with other scientists on the Radeau des Cimes, Canopy Raft, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, Nov. 1991, photo by Dany Cleyet-Marrel

  • Patrick Blanc and Monique Belin on the Canopy Raft, Radeau des Cimes, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, Nov. 1991, photo by Raphael Gaillarde

    Patrick Blanc and Monique Belin on the Canopy Raft, Radeau des Cimes, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, Nov. 1991, photo by Raphael Gaillarde

  • Patrick Blanc observing the growth habits of the mature tree crowns on the Canopy Raft, Radeau des Cimes, photo by Raphael Gaillarde

    Patrick Blanc observing the growth habits of the mature tree crowns on the Canopy Raft, Radeau des Cimes, photo by Raphael Gaillarde

  • Patrick Blanc reaching the Canopy Raft at 35 meters above the ground, where he discovered Cercestis blancii during the ascention between forest floor and tree crowns, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, Dec. 1991, photo by Pascal Héni

    Patrick Blanc reaching the Canopy Raft at 35 meters above the ground, where he discovered Cercestis blancii during the ascention between forest floor and tree crowns, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon, Dec. 1991, photo by Pascal Héni

  • Patrick Blanc, Marc Jeanson and Simon Mayo holding the type specimen of Cercestis blancii discovered by Patrick in Cameroon in 1991, Herbarium of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, March 2025

    Patrick Blanc, Marc Jeanson and Simon Mayo holding the type specimen of Cercestis blancii discovered by Patrick in Cameroon in 1991, Herbarium of the Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, March 2025

  • First page of the article describing Cercestis blancii, Botany Letters, published online 24th November 2025

    First page of the article describing Cercestis blancii, Botany Letters, published online 24th November 2025

  • Cercestis blancii - Synthetic representation of the growth habits by Patrick Blanc

    Cercestis blancii - Synthetic representation of the growth habits by Patrick Blanc

  • Cercestis blancii climbing along tree trunk in disturbed forest, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroun

    Cercestis blancii climbing along tree trunk in disturbed forest, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroun

  • Cercestis blancii, branched leafy stems creeping along the horizontal branches of a small forest tree, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, branched leafy stems creeping along the horizontal branches of a small forest tree, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, a stem climbing along the branch of a small forest tree, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, a stem climbing along the branch of a small forest tree, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii down from host tree, Campo, Cameroun

    Cercestis blancii down from host tree, Campo, Cameroun

  • Cercestis blancii, adaxial and abaxial surfaces of the leaf blades, Campo, Cameroun

    Cercestis blancii, adaxial and abaxial surfaces of the leaf blades, Campo, Cameroun

  • Cercestis blancii, 35 cm long median lobe of mature leaf, Campo, Cameroun

    Cercestis blancii, 35 cm long median lobe of mature leaf, Campo, Cameroun

  • Cercestis blancii, extrafloral nectaries mostly along the midrib and secondary veins.

    Cercestis blancii, extrafloral nectaries mostly along the midrib and secondary veins.

  • Cercestis blancii, secondary veins and faint network of interprimary and tertiary veins.

    Cercestis blancii, secondary veins and faint network of interprimary and tertiary veins.

  •  Cercestis blancii, a stem exhibiting the characteristic succession of foliage leaves separated by long internodes, the cataphylls having withered except the apical one

    Cercestis blancii, a stem exhibiting the characteristic succession of foliage leaves separated by long internodes, the cataphylls having withered except the apical one

  • Cercestis blancii, cataphyll encircling the developing folded foliage leaf, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, cataphyll encircling the developing folded foliage leaf, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, adventitious clasping roots, drying cataphyll, short thick internode, sheathing foliage leaf base and emerging new cataphyll above the developing long internode, Campo, Cameroun

    Cercestis blancii, adventitious clasping roots, drying cataphyll, short thick internode, sheathing foliage leaf base and emerging new cataphyll above the developing long internode, Campo, Cameroun

  • Cercestis blancii, monopodial succession of one cataphyll, one short thick internode, one floiage leaf sheathing the stem, one thin long internode, one cataphyll and so on

    Cercestis blancii, monopodial succession of one cataphyll, one short thick internode, one floiage leaf sheathing the stem, one thin long internode, one cataphyll and so on

  • Cercestis blancii, leaf sheath with basal geniculum and cataphyll scar just below, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, leaf sheath with basal geniculum and cataphyll scar just below, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, the short thick internode with the axillary bud of the shedded cataphyll at its base and the axillary bud of the foliage leaf at the top, still protected by the turned down sheath, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, the short thick internode with the axillary bud of the shedded cataphyll at its base and the axillary bud of the foliage leaf at the top, still protected by the turned down sheath, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, the short thick internode with basal axillary bud of the cataphyll and upper axillary bud of the foliage leaf, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, the short thick internode with basal axillary bud of the cataphyll and upper axillary bud of the foliage leaf, Nkol Elon, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii - schematic representation of the sequential monopodial growth alternating one cataphyll and one foliage leaf, each one with an axillary bud along short and long internodes, by Patrick Blanc

    Cercestis blancii - schematic representation of the sequential monopodial growth alternating one cataphyll and one foliage leaf, each one with an axillary bud along short and long internodes, by Patrick Blanc

  • Cercestis blancii, much branched individual due to growth on horizontal tree branches and to successive traumatisms, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, much branched individual due to growth on horizontal tree branches and to successive traumatisms, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, successive traumatisms leading to the fasciculate outgrowth of many axillary buds from cataphylls and foliage leaves, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, successive traumatisms leading to the fasciculate outgrowth of many axillary buds from cataphylls and foliage leaves, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii as a tall hemiepiphyte with freely hanging spiny feeding roots, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii as a tall hemiepiphyte with freely hanging spiny feeding roots, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon

  • Patrick Blanc showing the shiny black barbed feeding roots of Cercestis blancii, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018

    Patrick Blanc showing the shiny black barbed feeding roots of Cercestis blancii, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018

  • Patrick Blanc and his crown of spines made of a single rolled feeding root of Cercestis blancii, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023, photo by Eric Ngansop

    Patrick Blanc and his crown of spines made of a single rolled feeding root of Cercestis blancii, Campo, Cameroon, Sept. 2023, photo by Eric Ngansop

  • Cercestis blancii, barbed armed root, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, barbed armed root, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, one inflorescence and two smaller emerging from this flowering sympodium, the relaying vegetative shoot will be issued from the pink axillary bud of the preceding cataphyll

    Cercestis blancii, one inflorescence and two smaller emerging from this flowering sympodium, the relaying vegetative shoot will be issued from the pink axillary bud of the preceding cataphyll

  • Cercestis blancii, female basal part and medium and upper male part of the spadix

    Cercestis blancii, female basal part and medium and upper male part of the spadix

  • Cercestis blancii, naked female flowers with pink ovary and crested stigma and male flowers with thick whitish connective and thecae, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, naked female flowers with pink ovary and crested stigma and male flowers with thick whitish connective and thecae, Ebodjé, Campo, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, female flowers reduced to one unilocular ovary with a single basal anatropous ovule

    Cercestis blancii, female flowers reduced to one unilocular ovary with a single basal anatropous ovule

  • Innocent Medjo and Patrick Blanc holding a fruiting  specimen of Cercestis blancii, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018, photo by Marc Jeanson

    Innocent Medjo and Patrick Blanc holding a fruiting specimen of Cercestis blancii, Ebodje, Campo, Cameroon, March 2018, photo by Marc Jeanson

  • Cercestis blancii, infructescence with brown basally green hard separate baccate fruits, Ebodjé, Cameroon

    Cercestis blancii, infructescence with brown basally green hard separate baccate fruits, Ebodjé, Cameroon

  • Cercestis blancii, longitudinal section of the infructescence, each individual large berry with a 2 mm thick pericarp and a central large white storaging cotyledonary hyperphyll

    Cercestis blancii, longitudinal section of the infructescence, each individual large berry with a 2 mm thick pericarp and a central large white storaging cotyledonary hyperphyll

  • Cercestis blancii, a three months old seedling still producing only cataphylls separated by long internodes along its flagelliform stem

    Cercestis blancii, a three months old seedling still producing only cataphylls separated by long internodes along its flagelliform stem

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