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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Genus: | Mapania |
| Species: | M. caudata |
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Mapania petiolata var. pumila Uittien | |
Mapania caudata is a species of plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is found throughout the peninsula, but particularly on the east side. Its natural habitat is shady, moist microclimates in tropical understory. Like several other shady understory plant species, its leaves display blue iridescence. The mechanism was described as resulting from silica nanoparticles in microfibrillar layers stacked into helicoidal structures, appearing on the adaxial epidermal surface, with the iridescence from cell surfaces being left-circularly polarized.
References
- ^ "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families".
- Strout, Greg; Russell, Scott D.; Pulsifer, Drew P.; Erten, Sema; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Lee, David W. (October 2013). "Silica nanoparticles aid in structural leaf coloration in the Malaysian tropical rainforest understorey herb Mapania caudata". Annals of Botany. 112 (6): 1141–1148. doi:10.1093/aob/mct172. ISSN 1095-8290. PMC 3783236. PMID 23960046.
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