Neglectia recurvispina 🥀 Common Name: The Curlthorn, or Patient Maw
🔬 Scientific Name: Neglectia recurvispina
🥀 Common Name: The Curlthorn, or Patient Maw
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Dolorosales
Family: Reclusiflorae
Genus: Neglectia
Species: recurvispina
🧬 Morphology:
A tightly coiled, spined floral mass resembling a clump of barbed tendons wrapped in descending spiral forms. Each spine is backward-hooked, and sheathed in a translucent cartilage membrane. The center of the plant houses a single bloom-eye: a polished bone disc lined with cilia that detect breath shadows.
🧴 Osteofusion:
Will not attach to active tissue. Instead, it bonds to bones left untouched — scapulae from burials without naming, knuckles never held. Once fused, it draws from the surrounding architectural silence to produce rootfolds that echo forgotten steps.
🧠 Traits:
- Reacts exclusively to neglect: left alone too long, it blooms
- Emits a sharp, rising tonal pulse upon sudden rediscovery
- Curlspines carry faint tactile memories — brushing them can cause emotional hallucinations
- Has been known to fracture storage vaults with its delayed radial bloom
📍 Habitat:
Commonly mistaken for detritus. Found between archive shelf cracks, ossuary crawlspaces, behind ritual altars. First noticed only after bloom-phase detonation.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G6-L — Latency-triggered bloom. Harmless while seen, dangerous while unremembered.
📝 Notes:
- “We forgot to catalog it. When we returned, the wall had ruptured.”
- “She never saw it bloom. It bloomed *for that reason*.”
- “One of the curlspines touched my wrist. I remembered something I had buried in myself.”