fytoneita

Fytoneita is a fictional mineral used in geology education and speculative mineralogy to illustrate naming conventions, mineral structure, and occurrence patterns. It is described as a rare aluminosilicate phyllosilicate with layered silicate sheets connected by hydroxyl groups.

In the imaginary dataset, fytoneita crystallizes in the monoclinic system; color pale green to olive; luster vitreous to pearly; Mohs hardness around 4.5; transparent to translucent; typical habit tabular or plate-like crystals; commonly forms as small grains.

Reported from hydrothermally altered ultramafic rocks in a fictional mountain range; associated minerals serpentine, chlorite, talc, magnetite; formation linked to low-temperature metamorphism and hydrothermal fluids.

Name derived from Greek fyto- meaning plant and the mineral suffix -ite; first described in 1999 by fictional researcher Dr. A. N. Pallas in a teaching collection.

In practice, fytoneita serves as a teaching tool for mineral naming, classification, and the interpretation of metamorphic hydrothermal environments; it has no real-world production or availability.