Kline

Klines have the characteristics of an aquatic type of plant, but instead of water they grow in lava lakes. They belong to the genus Firava, and are native to the Axysk lake and Knikis source. They live inside the lava lake, near the bottom of it, next to other Firava.

Basic Information

Anatomy

Klines are divided in two parts, the main body which is a long thick vine like stem with a row of spikes in one side, and the roots which the plant can bury in the lava lakes deeper than other firava plants. The main source of nutrients comes from attaching themselves to other plants using the spikes to extract them. If the plant hasn't found a vessel it would use its roots to extract nutrients from the lake floor, this can only be sustained for three months as the roots don't have the capacity to provide the plant for longer periods of time before succumbing to the lava.

At one end of the Kline, flowers grow. This is the reproductive organ of the plant and grows a single flower every 4 months which can live as long as the Kline is alive and attached to another Firava if it is not pollinated.

The spikes of the Kline are used for two things: to attach and to extract nutrients. They climbs their supports by hammering the spikes in the Firava's trunk after growing upwards a few centimetres. After hammering the spikes in the trunk, these same spikes grow until they find a vessel and suck the nutrients. The Kline does not need as much nutrients to survive as the vessels transport and this ensures that both plants are able to survive.

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Kline by Catoblepon

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Firava

Geographic Distribution

• Axysk lake
• Knikis source

Symbiotic Relationships

Zothis by Catoblepon

Zothis

The Zothis is a fish that live in the lava lakes. They help the Kline to reproduce, by taking its pollen to other flowers. They also use the flowers to feed their children before they can hunt and the spikes of dead Kline to make their nests.

Cirow

The Cirow is the prefered support of the Kline as they are one of the tallest trees in the lava lakes and usually grow near other Cirow. The Cirow gives the Kline minerals to survive while the Kline strong stem helps the Cirow to survive attacks from other animals.

Cirow by Catoblepon

Reproduction

The Kline reproduces with its flower, there are male and female flowers. Animals (such as the Zothis) and currents move pollen from male flowers to the pistil in the female flowers. After the pollen enters the pistil, the flower creates a seed that (after growing for two weeks) floats away in the currents of the lake until it falls to the floor, where a new plant will grow if the conditions are adequate. The flower, after loosing the seed, looses its petals (which the Zothis will use for their nests) and soon after, the rest of the flower falls, leaving space to a future new flower.

Habitat

Kline live mostly in the Axysk lake and in the Knikis source, but recently, some specimens have appear in the Lake of Kugrum. It is still unknown how it has started appearing in this lake as there are not documents of lava rivers connecting this lake with the other two lakes in Branul.

Uses and recolection

Being a plant that lives in lava, one could expect to never see it if you do not live in lava as well. But this plant, when it dies, tends to float up and usually end up in the coasts of the lava lakes; this allows to be recolected by intelligent species. During the third month, its when dead kline are more common to find.

After lot of trial and error, in Dhalgron, researchers have found that the kline is a great natural medicine to burn wounds and the spikes can function as a syringe. The inside of the stem of the kline, when covering a burn wound, speeds the scarring process and calms the pain. The spikes, being hollow, are great syringes and are used mostly for injecting medicines in the veins of a person and to make tattoos.

As people need to wait for the plant to die and then float to the coast, this plant and its products is pretty expansive to buy or find in Uchres, Sheoka and recently in Celasia Empire. Outside these three countries, its almost impossible to find any product unless you export it from the countries paying a really high price.