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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Myrmecophyly is best documented among tropical epiphytes, and myrmecotrophy occurs especially among domatia-forming plants. We report the case of <em>Polytaenium cajenense</em> with "external" domatia and its use by the same symbiont ant as its host <em>Cordia nodosa</em>. This case is interpreted as the result of stochastic events and their relations to pre-existing adaptations of all species involved. </span>