Auriculoxia exsentia : Glyph Listener
🔬 Scientific Name: Auriculoxia exsentia
👂 Common Name: “The Empty Ear” or “Glyph Listener”
🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Gentianales
• Family: Tympanofloreaceae
• Genus: Auriculoxia
• Species: exsentia
🧬 Morphology:
• Core Form: Tubular, semi-coiled structure resembling the inner ear's cochlea, built of pale flexible cartilage embedded with ossified glyph fragments.
• Leaves: None. Instead: soft auricular flanges extend from the stalk like overlapping concha folds. These vibrate in response to subsonic glyph tones.
• Inflorescence: Grows inward. The bloom is hidden — a tympanic sac lined with micro-spicules and marrow-pulp, nested at the terminus of the growth coil. It resonates when secrets are nearby.
• Roots: Threadlike resonance hairs. These penetrate skull bone and trace auditory nerves toward the brainstem. Root ends are barbed with microscopic ossicapsules.
🦴 Osteofusion:
• Grows directly into the temporal bone, particularly within abandoned or ruptured cochlear spaces.
• Fusion occurs via sub-cranial wrapping and capillary bone-thread integration.
• Known to replace damaged auditory structures, restoring “hearing” — but only for **glyphic sounds**.
🧠 Traits:
• Passive Translator: Converts inaudible glyph hums into internal meaning-like impressions. Not words — but **urgencies**.
• Anti-Silence Reflex: Plant curls and tightens violently in total silence. Hosts often experience tinnitus-like glyph signatures before bloom collapse.
• Memory Leak Filter: The bloom chamber collects suppressed thoughts as pollen residue. When ruptured, these thoughts are released back into nearby speech.
📍 Habitat:
• Found in sealed vaults, anechoic chambers, derelict broadcast towers, and within certain skull reliquaries.
• Occasionally grown in controlled conditions inside boneglass domes for resonance experiments.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G8-H] – High-risk implant flora. Host may develop compulsive listening behavior or semantic hallucinations.
• Unauthorized bloom rupture may trigger local recursive confession loop.
📝 Notes:
• “She stopped speaking after it bloomed. Said she could finally ‘hear around the words’.”
• “It doesn’t echo. It answers.”
• “We found pollen dust at the base of a bishop’s skull. He’d been deaf for years.”