A genus of tropical plants in the fig family, known for their unusual flat, disc-shaped flower structures.
Named after Theodor Dorsten, a 16th-century German botanist, using the Latinization suffix '-ia' to form a genus name.
Dorstenia plants have flowers that look like flying saucers sitting on their leaves, and insects pollinate them by walking across the disc—it's an alien-looking solution to plant reproduction.
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