The Plains Plategrass, Common Piercertree and Ringleaf woodpiercer.

 Hello and welcome back to another Eile entry, today we will explore some of the flora of the temperate plains.

The plains plategrass belong to a widespread genus of organisms called Arvumclipeus ,a genus with many species because of the high variability in features of populations in these species, which also possess a bunch of subspecies, often they are denoted in english by plategrass. The plategrass develop a hard plate called a "shield" or a "plate" , made out of hydrocarbons, which appear green in colour, this is a permeable, but hard plate, the plate is permeable to allow water to pass through and is able to grow cone-shaped photosynthesising blades.  Through this permeable plate along of process happen such as excretion of waste, during this excretion, the plategrass produce something known as bio-detrite, which many micro-fauna feed on. 

Majority of plategrass produce asexually via releasing spores into the air which would land on a another plategrass and begin parasitising the parent until the parent's death, where another plategrass grows. Several other non-plategrass flora use this method aswell, but reproduce sexually via pollinators and then releasing seeds via anapnoils or distribute it by wind.

The plains plategrass, scientific name being Arvumclipeus albabulbos EILE are distributed along Tuaisceartan and Notiodytikian temperate plains. Scientific names for individual species of Eile are usually denoted with the "EILE" at the end to indicate they are native to Eile. Below is a simple diagram of a plategrass species.

This is a diagram of Arvumclipeus albabulbos EILE, detritus here refers to bio-detritus which is waste, this waste fed upon by several microfauna such as the quadrapedal articulisids . Please note that this is a simplified diagram.

The next flora we are going to look is the common piercertree, scientific name being Magneroboris vulgaris EILE , it is from a "tree" lineage distantly related to the Plategrass  which adapted to live in plains conditions, which we will call piercertrees.

 Sometimes a phenomenon  with Plategrass happens, where the plategrass grow on top of dead plategrass making a mountain of unfiltered biomass which are seemingly protected by the plategrass' plates. Piecertree seeds will take advantage of this, using humid conditions they may "germinate" and begin parasitising on the plategrass' until it dies, once it dies, it "germinates" again and pierces thriugh the hard at and feeds on the biomass, growing quickly and monopolising nutrients from the colony of plategrass, growing to incredible sizes . But this doesn't always happen , and the piercertrees can grow on flat surfaces by piercing the hard plate when they "germinate".

The piercertrees reproduce through releasing micro-gametes (specifically pollenoids) via wind,and fruiting bodies are developed to host eggoids in which fertilisation occurs  , as they are hermaphroditic, Pollenoids are released and fruiting bodies are developed containing eggoids, eventually as the egg is fertilised by the pollenoid, the "tree" will develop "seeds" containing fruits which are eaten by flying apothemaites and released through feces.

An illustration of a fully developed Magneroboris vulgaris EILE with parasitic-symbiontic ringleaf woodpiercer, despite the symbiotic relationship, there are many sabotagers which may cause any of them to die. A black sorrounding may suggest that burrowing organisms have taken root under the plategrass using the area of dirt as an entrance zone.Plategrass blades are alot more numerous and grass-like than what is depicted here.

Piercertrees always leave an area of dirt around them , as it is difficult for Plategrass to grow around them as the piercertree parasitise and monopolise the nutrients around them. This is a hotspot for the burrowing microfauna, such as the eubrachids and eumollisids and articulusids, and the Euheterosessilids, the "funga" of Eile.

The piercertree is also host to symbionts and parasitic flora,  one of the more famous symbionts is the Ringleaf Woodpiercer,  Coronafolii vulgaris EILE, the ringleaf woodpiercer is related to the red plants of the tundra biome on Eile and have adapted to a lifestyle symbiosis both supplying each other energy. There are many sabotagers such as Articulusid microfauna, or some grazing apothemaites , or the piercertree's parasites themselves, thus making the ringleaf woodpiercer reproduce asexually very quickly. The Ringleaf Woodpiercers root themselves onto the wood of the Piercertree and produce a ring of red leaves around the tree.