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|size = 5 m Tall
|support = Cell Wall (Cellulose)
|locomotion = Sessile
|diet = Photosynthesis
|thermoregulation = Ectotherm
|respiration = Passive (Stomata, Lenticels)
|reproduction = Sexual, Nuts containing many small, hardy seeds
|parent = Oaseophylagaceae
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The Lesser Steppespire still possesses large petals at the very top that open up only at night, releasing a strong odor to attract the [[Inland Nectarworm]]. The pollen-stalks are still lined by motion-sensitive trigger-hairs, which will cause the petals to close up if an Inland Nectarworm lands on them. As the suctoradioid struggles to get out, it gets covered in a coat of pollen, so that when the petals open up on the next night the Inland Nectarworm can fly out and get itself trapped within the petals of a Lesser Steppespire and fertilize it. The flowers now only bloom at the start of spring and for only a couple weeks, as this is the time when the Inland Nectarworms become fully mature.
After getting pollinated, the Lesser Steppespire still produces a nut that contains many small and hardy seeds. Though the seeds are still tough enough to survive the digestive tracts of frugivores, the lack of said frugivores means the species relies on the nuts decaying with and the seeds falling down and landing on the soil. Eventually these seeds will grow into new Lesser Steppespires, with the fact that they do not get that far from the parent meaning Lesser Steppespires often grow in small but dense groves in the vast
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