Laudulora cenotaxa : “The Banquet Stem” or “Crowngift”

🔬 Scientific Name: Laudulora cenotaxa
🍽️ Common Name: “The Banquet Stem” or “Crowngift”

🌱 Classification:
• Kingdom: Plantae
• Order: Ranunculales
• Family: Cenotaphaceae
• Genus: Laudulora
• Species: cenotaxa

🧬 Morphology:
• Central Stem Cluster: Five intertwined vascular bone-stalks rise from a fused ossic vase-root. Each stem is inscribed with ceremonial names encoded in spiraled commendation glyphs.
• Bloom Assemblage: Composed of concentric ring-blooms — bone-petaled florets, crownlike ossicles, and marrow-sheathed filaments. Each bloom aligns symbolically with anatomical virtue: clavicle (offering), sternum (truth), humerus (service), ilium (foundation), patella (movement).
• Collar Garland: A wide radial fan of translucent glyph-bracts at the base, mimicking lace or frill, etched with inverted names in negative relief.

🦴 Osteofusion:
• Grown in ossified presentation vessels — shallow boneware bowls carved from shoulder-blade or fused jaw.
• Fuses briefly to stone or wood banquet tables during presentation, locking the bouquet into mnemonic stillness.
• Once the commendation is spoken aloud, the root disengages and leaves a petroglyph bloom-shadow on the surface.

🧠 Traits:
• Name Engraving: Each bloom component encodes one name, title, or offering. Only those named may view their glyph clearly. Others see only lattice.
• Multi-Species Bloom: Accepts up to five separate mnemonic records and harmonizes them into a single crownbouquet.
• Scent: Emits low-level mnemonic vapour — thought-rose, ivory ash, and final breath on a plateau.

📍 Habitat:
• Reserved for ritual feasts, glyph investitures, post-mortem laureling, and ossuary accession banquets.
• Found at the center of high stone tables, ringed by seats never fully occupied.

⚠️ Risk Profile:
• [G7-E] – Stable bloom. May cause unwanted remembrance in unnamed guests.
• Safe to handle post-silencing. Not edible.

📝 Notes:
• “They placed the bouquet in silence. Everyone at the table wept — but only the named.”
• “Each flower held a story. Mine was folded into the third bloom.”
• “The banquet ended with a single name still unspoken. The bloom stayed rooted.”