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水玉簪科
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型态描述
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本科物种一般都有出众的外表，通常是红色而不是绿色，没有太多的叶面积，并且不会以任何方式变得非常大。_NEWLINE_所有成员均为菌异营物种，主要分布在南半球，并在阴凉和热带环境中生长。当中有不少物种为濒危物种。
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演化史
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According to molecular analyses, the myco-heterotrophic type of life that these species lead evolved six (or even more) times independently in the three clades that are part of Burmanniaceae. Afrothismia and tribe Thismieae represent two of these shifts to myco-heterotrophy from autotrophy while Burmanniaceae sensu stricto are the clade where the other four took place. The family appears in the Late Cretaceous but the further diversification and shifts to the typical habit occurred later in the same period and continued after the 白垩纪－古近纪界线 in 古近纪.