Pendulosa murmuralis 🪢 Common Name: The Murmuring Drape
🔬 Scientific Name: Pendulosa murmuralis
🪢 Common Name: The Murmuring Drape
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Lamiinales
Family: Ossalinguae
Genus: Pendulosa
Species: murmuralis
🧬 Morphology:
A long, tapering stalk of pale bone-tendon descends like a rope from ceiling or branch. At intervals along the stalk, delicate bone-flower nodes hang like inverted bells, their petals translucent and slightly fibrous. Each node bears internal ridges that emit a soft, continuous murmur when disturbed by breath or motion.
🧴 Osteofusion:
Attaches not to the ground, but to **vault ceilings**, ribcage arches, or the underside of ossified rafters. Fuses through cranial or vertebral overhangs, occasionally extracting spongy bone to anchor. Will not bloom unless suspended.
🧠 Traits:
- Emits a continuous low whisper when air pressure changes nearby
- Resonates faint glyph patterns onto floor or skin below
- Blooms downward toward grief
- Highly responsive to unsaid truths
📍 Habitat:
Often discovered inside confession alcoves, catacomb domes, and beneath bell towers that have never rung. Grows from the ceilings of places once meant to echo.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G5-V — Visually benign; spiritually invasive. May overwrite personal memories with whispered inversions of events.
📝 Notes:
- “I sat beneath it, and it told my name back to me — reversed, and correct.”
- “The flower bloomed when I almost spoke the thing I swore not to.”
- “Its breath moved the dust before I entered.”