Marcgravia evenia
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Marcgravia evenia is a species of plant
Plant
Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...

 in the Marcgraviaceae
Marcgraviaceae
Marcgraviaceae is a neotropical angiosperm family in the order Ericales.The members of the family are shrubs, woody epiphytes and lianas with alternate, pinnately-nerved leaves. The flowers are arranged in racemes. The flowers are accompanied by modified, fleshy saccate bracts which produce nectar....

 family, within this family it belongs to the Galetae group, which is characterized by a long inflorescence axis and boat shaped nectaries . This plant that has evolved bowl shaped leaves which act as reflectors for a bat's biosonar . This helps the bats to find the plants with greater ease and hence pollinate them with more frequency. The shape of the leaves also helps to guide the bats in locating the hidden feeders. The plant is native to Cuba and relies on Monophyllus
Monophyllus
Monophyllus is a genus of bat in the family Phyllostomidae.It contains the following species:* Insular Single Leaf Bat * Leach's Single Leaf Bat...

, a Cuban nectar-feeding bat, for pollination.

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