Welcome to Burmanniaceae.org. This website is dedicated to our research on the fascinating members of the plant family Burmanniaceae: tiny and extremely rare beauties of the tropical rain-forests. Our mission is to discover and understand these poorly known plants and learn more about their evolutionary relationships.

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