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bruongouna, more commonly called hair moss, are basal nodomusco, having heavy debate amongst ◗ta scholars about whether they are colonial or multicellular, this is due to each strand being around only 20 cells thick but being able to extend as long as trillions of cells, as well as growing rather strangely, by releasing a constant stream of gametes into the ammonia and they will combines until enough gametes combine enough to weigh them to the bed of the body of ammonia, this cell clump will then rapidly grow into a mat and will grow strands of hair moss covering as much of the mat as it can, and each strand has a slightly different genetic code which each release unique gametes, they tend to be found on rocks due to the convenience of the hard surface being easier to cling to and more stable than the sediment the rest of the bed, though spike warts are also common, and occasionally they land on skeletons, if you have any questions regarding this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

phylloacanth, more commonly called a moss sponge, are secondarily aquatic amphiamischos, which create a spongey porous structure out of moss which is slowly expanding to fit a reasonable size for its environment, the stem shoots millions of gametes out of the small tip on the top, in some large lakes it requires the help of clipteeth to help maintain a sustainable size, though some clipteeth can remove all moss sponges from an environment weakens the entire food chain, taking out a huge chunk and damaging the diets of ostracosarcodon, ichthyolania, anodontodon, and anchinosimimus, each of which relies on both clipteeth and moss sponge in some way, some small bodies of ammonia are filled with a subspecies of ichthyrhynchus which rely on hair moss exclusively due to the lack of moss sponge, alternatively subspecies of izimabates which eat moss sponge have also been found in small bodies of ammonia which lack clipteeth, if you have any questions about this symbiotic organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

cyclosclero, more commonly called a spike wart, are small spike covered solumykitas, cyclosclero expel trillions of spores from every direction due to the spikes having small holes on their tips, they are commonly found in large groups, though it is still unknown whether this is due to multiple spike warts being near each other fills the surrounding area with new warts over time or if its due too the singular solumykitas producing multiple warts for its own reproduction, due to being made entirely of tough nutrient poor material they are one of the few things in the entire fresh water ecosystem of the mountains which doesnt get eaten, at least the wart, the small hyphae like structure named xylohyphe is very commonly eaten by the bottom feeding ichthyolania, the wart will decompose itself if it becomes too costly to keep producing spores compared to its nutrient output, usually only decomposing the stem, and then deconstruct the stability roots back into xylohyphe, leaving the wart drifting through the ammonia slowly decomposing and being eaten as it ferments and becomes weaker and contains more nutrients, if you have any questions regarding this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

xylochoma, more commonly called a spore cone, are small usually cone shaped solumykitas, they litter the shadow forest in clusters, usually containing only one or two organisms per cluster, the cones sometimes have an extra cone growing off of them, these cones expel millions of spores by the second, in hopes of the spores finding another spore to grow into a new xylochoma, they are the only "plant" in the shadow forest that isnt a "tree", taking advantage of the very thin surface layer the giant mycoarbor doesnt occupy to consume corpses, though this does mean their roots and cones will be consumed by pretty much every organism that can, during the drought they detach their cones from their body which let xenomicrozoans start consuming them and breaking them down, which also lets more organisms consume the cones due to the xenomicrozoans making it softer and easier to consume, if you have any questions whatsoever please dont be afraid to ask i am more than overjoyed to answer

caulisoma, more commonly called fungal coral, are diverse solumykitas which litter any body of ammonia within the shadow forest, having little to no consistent bauplan, the only consistent throughline is a thin flat tall coral like solumykitas, its been divided into multiple categories [though these categories do not equal species], these being soroformes, which tend to grow in areas with lower ammonia which frequently dry up during the drought, such as shorelines or large parts of the swamps, acanthoformes, which are spikey and frequently show up near or on corpses, due to being "fruiting bodies" made up of roots which remained out of the substrate after the corpse has been fully consumed, and coraliformes, the most common kind usually found in areas with a consistently sustainable amount of ammonia year round, and are theorized to be the only intentionally made "fruiting body" out of all caulisomas, though this theory is very controversial and most likely wrong, fungal coral grows various points which expel thousands of spores every second, which flow throughout the ammonia or even open air till they come in contact with another spore and will grow into a new caulisoma, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than willing to answer

lampsikerp, more commonly called a spore berry, are small reproductive organs of almost purely ground based solumykitas, they reach into the ammonia with a small tip and a larger stump, the small tip shoots out spores to land into potential "stumps", this will then begin the production of the berries which give these organisms their common names, they also grow a series of spikes around the stump which continue to collect spores to add genetic material to their fruit, these fruits are filled with glowing chemicals which almost immediately dissolve upon contact with ammonia, meaning their skin is very "ammonia tight", not letting any get in without proper filtering by the rest of the organism, they are also very segmented, which lets the lampsikerp regrow their fruits if pieces are pulled off by outside forces or hungry herbivores, as well as letting them easily funnel new spores and adjust the genetic code within the fruits, though during the drought the stumps and tips pull back down into the ground and the lampsikerp focuses on eating corpses till the droughts end, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask i am more than happy to answer

a drekol named dopel, theyre a home-planet drekol, and makes a living turning "shard grass" [the plant in the picture] into weavable string with their partners, their job tends to be pest control which they dont take very seriously due to the size of their field

a drekol named pedal, pedal lives on a middle ring colony and makes a living as a freelance mechanic, they are ma-ch's roommate and likes tinkering with their technology to help make it more compatible for an ap

the matriarch, the current diplomatic spokesperson of drekol and lotred in the ◗ta empire, shes been the matriarch for about 20 telluric years, and is very dutiful to the empress and will defend her decisions to the end even if it disadvantages her and her people, she is currently trying to enforce zhutaform script in hedezhoop literature and on lotred as a whole

amphidendron, more commonly called a leaning tree, these trees litter the steppe near sources of ammonia as well as particularly nutrient dense patches of soil, they have evolved the ability to move the branches at the top of their trunk and use it to do a form of heliotropism, similar to telluric sunflowers, and during the night they move back to face the direction of tiruriwk in the morning, the branches that grow off of the sides of the trunk however do not, they have adapted to use the organisms they attract with their low lying branches for assistance in reproduction, by evolving gametangia on the end of the branches which release pollen whenever the moss gets disturbed and then releasing chemicals to attract any spores which got combined in that event, adding their own genetic material to any they receive, then growing clusters of nuts off of the gametangia for organisms to consume to help spread them, if the nuts are still there in 5-9 days they will release them and continue releasing pollen, if you have any questions at all about this organism please don't be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

cubothamnos, more commonly called a cube bush, are small sedereamischos, they have evolved a strange cuboid shape for seemingly no reason, they are very popular among ◗ta gardeners do to how easy to care for they are, the only downside being the burs they grow, these burs evolved to cling onto the archeina of vulperhynchus to help spread the clusters of cube bushes to the maximum size they can reach, leading to large patches riddling the steppe, they produce pheromone like chemicals which keep the burs clinging to whatever organism they're on, these chemicals tend not to last farther out then a few inches off of the cubothamnos producing them before becoming indistinguishable from the air around them, as well as decaying into free particles fairly fast, meaning that the burs won't fall off their “host” until they are removed from the chemicals, this does also mean that cube bush clusters have a distinct scent to them, smelling sweet almost to a sickly degree, they also have evolved to connect their roots and share nutrients they gain, if you have any questions about these oddly cuboid sedereamischos please don't be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer them

gavathanthus, more commonly called a bowl flower, are small sedereamischos which produce large quantities of aromas chemicals to attract organisms to pollinate them, this is due to an incapability for this genus to produce different colours on their “leaves”, they produce nectar from the tips of their gamatangia as well as pollen, they also absorb pollen during this process, and eventually over time the bowl will close and a fruit will develop from all the gathered pollen, the bowl will then open again with the fruit filling the entire centre, if you have any questions about this organism please don't be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

mycoplatus, more commonly called a flat wart, these small solumykitas are the closest living relatives to the mycoarbor of the shadow forest, even being viewed by amature ◗ta scholars to be simply neotonous members of the same genus, though genetic evidence shows theyre simply closely related genre, they produce mass amounts of spores which tend to cover the entire fruiting body of the flatwart in small patches, they tend to be reabsorbed alongside the fruiting body when the resource abundance that gave them enough nutrients to create it diminishes, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

laspiphyte, more commonly called rock slime, these nodomusco reproduce entirely asexually, through a process of essentially removing a piece of themselves and letting it drift through the body of ammonia they live in till it reaches a hard surface, roots itself on it, and begins growth through rapid cell production, the surfaces they find themselves on are more often than not rocks of some sorts, though on occasion they find themselves rooted on a bone or shell of a dead seelenlos, and on occasion infesting the “wood” of the amphiamischos which they share the bodies of ammonia with, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask im more than overjoyed to answer

anemedromeus, more commonly called skeletal algae, are small populous freefloating amphiamischos, using their solumykitas symbiotes as a skeleton of sorts, helping them keep their general shapes, they resemble the ancient prephotosynthetic ancestor of nodomuscos [called pseudozoans], causing a large amount of discourse amongst ◗ta scholars about the fossils of nodomuschos, solumykitas, sedereamischos, etc, since the common school of thought up until 976PE was that all fossils of pseudozoans were extremely old anemedromeids, but a fossil discovered in 976PE threw a wrench in that idea, showing evidence that the first sedereamischos evolved millions of years after pseudozoans went extinct and then further studies on pseudozoan fossils showed traits that anemedromeids lacked entirely and vice versa, though there was a large amount of resistance towards this new school of thought it eventually was proven factual beyond a doubt, if you have any questions about this amphiamischos please dont be afraid to ask im more than overjoyed to answer

fterodendrum, more commonly called a feather fern, are large amphiamischos which riddle the bodies of ammonia in steppes, they are a common food item for most herbivorous seelenlos, theyve evolved asexual as well as sexual reproduction, sending out thousands of spores every second into the ammonia to interact with other spores to grow a new fterodendrum, they can also reproduce through a piece of them breaking off and growing a complete new body as well as the parent regrowing the broken off piece, similar to telluric echinoderms, if you have any questions about this amphiamischos please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

mycostepho, more commonly called a crown wart, are solumykitas which form frequently in rivers, and in very nutrient dense areas of lakes, they tend to have 16 spikes which each produce thousands of spores a second, these spores will grow into mycostepho under the substrate, only producing the wart when they have enough nutrients to reproduce, these spores can reproduce on their lonesome when they reach the substrate, however if they interact with another spore they will fuse mixing their genomes as a form of sexual reproduction, if you have any questions about this solumykitas please dont be afraid to ask im more than overjoyed to answer

some generic trees of the planets im making

ngiui◗te tree: very similar to a telluric tree, though the leaves are more similar to long flat moss stalks

lotredish tree: has a large shelled heart like organ which pumps a form of vascular fluid throughout the entire body, has large photosynthetic parts made out of cells with silicate glass in their cell walls

athian tree: has an exoskeleton like structure which they use to keep their main body stable, they can move each of the joints in this structure to find a suitable shape and then they will only move slightly throughout their lifespan, grows "leaves" towards sources of immense heat, grows a thermoregulatory organ towards the coolest location near them, and continously grows clutches of spores in a glowing purple sac filled with access nutrients

ambidendroanthus, more commonly called a tree flower, are a type of sedereamischos with two biological morphs, depending on the environmental conditions they end up in they will grow into their angiomorph or their dendronimorph, if the environment they end up in has nutrient poor substrate and low moisture levels they will mature into their angiomorph, with no form of drift fruit and pollenating purely through wind and then releasing their seeds using wind dispersal or small burrs which attach to ostomesa, and they will mature into their dendronimorph if theyre in nutrient rich substrate or around high moisture levels, these dendronimorph ambidendroanthus pollenate similar to angiomorphs, and disperse seeds with wind dispersal as well as drift fruit which will quickly populate oases with dendronimorphs, ◗ta scholars did genetic testing and found that the closest living relative to ambidendroanthus is neoanthos from fungal steppes, if you have any questions about this organism please dont be afraid to ask im more than happy to answer

platykaktos, more commonly called a plate cactus, these sedereamischos grow with a form of fractal symmetry, growing two plates off of every plate, though these plates get thinner and smaller the farther away from the base they get, they also tilt around 5° from their baseplate, they have pores in their plates that produce a large quantity of spores which is the dust you can see on the platykaktos, if you have any questions about this sedereamischos please dont be afraid to ask im more than overjoyed to answer