Greenbriar

Cephalophyta anthocanis

The most common ancestor, Cephalophyta anthocoronis was a fossorial ambush predator, but the last extant descendant has taken on a more active approach to hunting. Though it still has the flower-like flesh around its face, C. anthocanis  is especially adept at running down prey and tearing at it with large claws- now modified to hook prey instead of dig, and springy limbs and spinal structure that allow it to turn on a dime. The flower-like tissue, as was likely the case with the ancestral species, works like a sort of external ear- funneling sound into the external acoustic meatus located at the occipital region of of the exposed head. It has an acute sense of hearing to track prey- however the most developed of its senses is the sense of smell. C. anthocanis has an especially acute paired set of tongues which, when pulled back into the mouth, sit stacked against the openings to paired vomeronasal organs- one on the mandibular side, and one on the maxillary side. The tongues mimic the stamen of a flower, while the mouth as a whole mimics the pistil. In recent years, C. anthocanis has been thought to be extinct, but a handful of individuals claim to have seen a creature that matches its description eerily well... perhaps a member of the species survives to this day? 

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