Hirtella physophora
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Hirtella physophora is a species of plant in the Chrysobalanaceae
Chrysobalanaceae
Chrysobalanaceae is a family of trees, shrubs and flowering plants, consisting of 17 genera and about 460 species of leptocaul that grows in the Tropics or is subtropical and common in the Americas...

 family. It forms an association with the ant species, Allomerus decemarticulatus
Allomerus decemarticulatus
The Amazonian ant species Allomerus decemarticulatus is a social insect found in the tropics of South America. They were documented by Alain Dejean et al. in French Guiana, a small French territory on the coast of northeast South America just north of Brazil...

. The ants live in honeycombed cylinders they attach to the plant's stems. The plant nearly always has these ants associated with it.
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