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Monolena primuliflora flowering in Isla Escondida

Tibouchina Q Isla Escondida DW Ms.jpg Monotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsMonochaetum myrtoideum (Melastomataceae)Monotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsMonochaetum myrtoideum (Melastomataceae)Monotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsMonochaetum myrtoideum (Melastomataceae)Monotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsMonochaetum myrtoideum (Melastomataceae)Monotropa sp. or maybe a red variety of M. uniflora, a mycoheterotroph plant that gets its nutrients from a fungi growing in Pauna, ColombiaThumbnailsMonochaetum myrtoideum (Melastomataceae)

All over Monolena primuliflora were flowering, but only in the mornings. In the afternoons the flowers were closed.