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Apiaceae

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Apiaceae or Umbelliferae, is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers. [1]

95 relations: Acronema, Aethusa cynapium, Ajwain, Angelica, Angelica archangelica, Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, Anise, Annual plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, APG III system, Apiaceae, Apiales, Apium, Araliaceae, Arracacia xanthorrhiza, Arrow poison, Asafoetida, Autumnalia, Biennial plant, Bupleurum, Bupleurum fruticosum, Caraway, Carl Linnaeus, Carrot, Celery, Chaerophyllum bulbosum, Chervil, Cicely, Cicuta douglasii, Cicuta maculata, Coccinellidae, Companion planting, Conium, Conium maculatum, Coriander, Coumarin, Cumin, Daucus, Daucus carota, Dill, Endosperm, Eryngium, Eryngium foetidum, Eryngium maritimum, Essential oil, Family (biology), Fennel, Ferula, Flowering plant, Fly, ..., Foeniculum, Furanocoumarin, Galbanum, Geitonogamy, Genus, Gynoecium, Hacquetia epipactis, Heracleum mantegazzianum, Herbaceous plant, Hermaphrodite, Incense, Inflorescence, John Lindley, Lovage, Mackinlayoideae, Morphology (biology), Oviparity, Papilio polyxenes, Paraphyly, Parasitoid wasp, Parsley, Parsnip, Perennial plant, Petal, Petiole (botany), Petroselinum, Phyllotaxis, Phylogenetics, Pinnation, Plant reproductive morphology, Pliny the Elder, Polyphyly, Polyyne, Robert Morison, Sanicula europaea, Schizocarp, Sepal, Shrub, Silphium, Species, Stamen, Taproot, Umbel, Water dropwort, Yareta. Expand index (45 more) »

Acronema

The genus Acronema consists of 38 species of plants in the Apiaceae family found in the Sino-Himalayan region.

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Aethusa cynapium

Aethusa cynapium (fool's parsley, fool's cicely, or poison parsley) is an annual (rarely biennial) herb in the plant family Apiaceae, native to Europe, western Asia, and northwest Africa.

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Ajwain

Ajwain, ajowan, or Trachyspermum ammi—also known as ajowan caraway, oomam (ஓமம்) in Tamil, ajman, bishop's weed, or carom—is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae (or Umbelliferae).

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Angelica

Angelica is a genus of about 60 species of tall biennial and perennial herbs in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere, reaching as far north as Iceland, Lapland and Greenland.

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Angelica archangelica

Angelica archangelica, commonly known as garden angelica, wild celery, and Norwegian angelica, is a biennial plant from the Apiaceae family, a subspecies of which is cultivated for its sweetly scented edible stems and roots.

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Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Website (or APweb) is a well-known website dedicated to research on angiosperm phylogeny and taxonomy.

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Anise

Anise (Pimpinella anisum), also called aniseed, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Southwest Asia.

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Annual plant

An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one year, and then dies.

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Anthriscus sylvestris

Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, or keck is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae), genus Anthriscus.

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APG III system

The APG III system of flowering plant classification is the third version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy being developed by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG).

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Apiaceae

Apiaceae or Umbelliferae, is a family of mostly aromatic flowering plants named after the type genus Apium and commonly known as the celery, carrot or parsley family, or simply as umbellifers.

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Apiales

The Apiales are an order of flowering plants.

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Apium

Apium (including celery and the marshworts) is a genus of about 20 species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia.

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Araliaceae

The Araliaceae is a family made of 52 genera and 700 species of flowering plants including perennial herbs, trees, vines and succulents.

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Arracacia xanthorrhiza

Arracacia xanthorrhiza is a root vegetable originally from the Andes, somewhat intermediate between the carrot and celery root.

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Arrow poison

Arrow poisons are used to poison arrow heads or darts for the purposes of hunting and warfare.

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Asafoetida

Asafoetida is the dried latex (gum oleoresin) exuded from the rhizome or tap root of several species of Ferula, a perennial herb that grows tall.

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Autumnalia

Autumnalia are two species of flowering plant in the Apiaceae family.

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Biennial plant

A biennial plant is a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its biological lifecycle.

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Bupleurum

Bupleurum is a large genus of annual or perennial herbs or woody shrubs, with about 190 species, belonging to the Apiaceae family.

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Bupleurum fruticosum

Bupleurum fruticosum or shrubby hare's-ear is a species of flowering plant in the Apiaceae family.

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Caraway

Caraway, also known as meridian fennel, and Persian cumin, (Carum carvi) is a biennial plant in the family Apiaceae,USDA Plants native to western Asia, Europe, and North Africa.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Carrot

The carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) is a root vegetable, usually orange in colour, though purple, black, red, white, and yellow cultivars exist.

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Celery

Celery (Apium graveolens) is a marshland plant in the family Apiaceae that has been cultivated as a vegetable since antiquity.

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Chaerophyllum bulbosum

Chaerophyllum bulbosum is a species of flowering plant from the carrot family and known by several common names, including turnip-rooted chervil, tuberous-rooted chervil, bulbous chervil, and parsnip chervil.

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Chervil

Chervil (Anthriscus cerefolium), sometimes called French parsley or garden chervil (to distinguish it from similar plants also called chervil), is a delicate annual herb related to parsley.

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Cicely

Myrrhis odorata, with common names cicely, sweet cicely, myrrh, garden myrrh, and sweet chervil, is a herbaceous perennial plant belonging to the celery family Apiaceae.

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Cicuta douglasii

Cicuta douglasii, the western water hemlock, is a poisonous plant in the family Apiaceae.

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Cicuta maculata

Cicuta maculata is a species of flowering plant in the carrot family known by several common names, including spotted water hemlock, spotted parsley, spotted cowbane, and the suicide root by the Iroquois.

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Coccinellidae

Coccinellidae is a widespread family of small beetles ranging in size from 0.8 to 18 mm (0.03 to 0.71 inches).

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Companion planting

Companion planting in gardening and agriculture is the planting of different crops in proximity for any of a number of different reasons, including pest control, pollination, providing habitat for beneficial creatures, maximizing use of space, and to otherwise increase crop productivity.

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Conium

Conium is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family Apiaceae which consists of four species accepted by The Plant List.

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Conium maculatum

Conium maculatum, the hemlock or poison hemlock, is a highly poisonous biennial herbaceous flowering plant in the carrot family Apiaceae, native to Europe and North Africa.

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Coriander

Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro or Chinese parsley, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae.

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Coumarin

Coumarin (2H-chromen-2-one) is a fragrant organic chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, although it may also be seen as a subclass of lactones.

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Cumin

Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to a territory including Middle East and stretching east to India.

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Daucus

Daucus is a worldwide genus of herbaceous plants of the family Apiaceae of which the best-known species is the cultivated carrot.

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Daucus carota

Daucus carota, whose common names include wild carrot, bird's nest, bishop's lace, and Queen Anne's lace (North America), is a white, flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to temperate regions of Europe and southwest Asia, and naturalized to North America and Australia.

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Dill

Dill (Anethum graveolens) is an annual herb in the celery family Apiaceae.

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Endosperm

The endosperm is the tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following fertilization.

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Eryngium

Eryngium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae.

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Eryngium foetidum

Eryngium foetidum is a tropical perennial herb in the family Apiaceae.

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Eryngium maritimum

Eryngium maritimum, the sea holly or seaside eryngo, is a species of Eryngium in the plant family Apiaceae and native to most European coastlines.

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Essential oil

An essential oil is a concentrated hydrophobic liquid containing volatile (defined as "the tendency of a substance to vaporize") aroma compounds from plants.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Fennel

Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a flowering plant species in the carrot family.

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Ferula

Ferula (from Latin ferula, "rod") is a genus of about 170 species of flowering plants in the carrot family, native to the Mediterranean region east to central Asia, mostly growing in arid climates.

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Fly

True flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wings".

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Foeniculum

Foeniculum is a genus of flowering plants in the carrot family.

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Furanocoumarin

The furanocoumarins, or furocoumarins, are a class of organic chemical compounds produced by a variety of plants.

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Galbanum

Galbanum is an aromatic gum resin and a product of certain umbelliferous Persian plant species in the genus Ferula, chiefly Ferula gummosa (synonym F. galbaniflua) and Ferula rubricaulis.

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Geitonogamy

Geitonogamy (from Greek geiton (γείτων).

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gynoecium

Gynoecium (from Ancient Greek γυνή, gyne, meaning woman, and οἶκος, oikos, meaning house) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.

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Hacquetia epipactis

Hacquetia epipactis (syn. Dondia epipactis Spreng.) is a species of flowering plant of the Apiaceae family, native to moist, shady woodland habitats in Europe.

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Heracleum mantegazzianum

Heracleum mantegazzianum, commonly known as giant hogweed, cartwheel-flower, giant cow parsnip, hogsbane or giant cow parsley, is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.

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Hermaphrodite

In biology, a hermaphrodite is an organism that has complete or partial reproductive organs and produces gametes normally associated with both male and female sexes.

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Incense

Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches.

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John Lindley

John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.

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Lovage

Lovage, Levisticum officinale, is a tall perennial plant, the sole species in the genus Levisticum in the family Apiaceae, subfamily Apioideae.

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Mackinlayoideae

Mackinlayoideae is a subfamily of plants containing about 67 species in six genera.

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Morphology (biology)

Morphology is a branch of biology dealing with the study of the form and structure of organisms and their specific structural features.

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Oviparity

Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other embryonic development within the mother.

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Papilio polyxenes

Papilio polyxenes, the (eastern) black swallowtail, American swallowtail or parsnip swallowtail, is a butterfly found throughout much of North America.

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Paraphyly

In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.

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Parasitoid wasp

Parasitoid wasps are a large group of hymenopteran superfamilies, all but the wood wasps (Orussoidea) being in the wasp-waisted Apocrita.

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Parsley

Parsley or garden parsley (Petroselinum crispum) is a species of flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native to the central Mediterranean region (southern Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Malta, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia), naturalized elsewhere in Europe, and widely cultivated as an herb, a spice, and a vegetable.

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Parsnip

The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable closely related to the carrot and parsley.

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Perennial plant

A perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Petal

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

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Petiole (botany)

In botany, the petiole is the stalk that attaches the leaf blade to the stem.

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Petroselinum

Petroselinum (parsley) is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to western and southern Europe and northern Africa.

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Phyllotaxis

In botany, phyllotaxis or phyllotaxy is the arrangement of leaves on a plant stem (from Ancient Greek phýllon "leaf" and táxis "arrangement").

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Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

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Pinnation

Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Pliny the Elder

Pliny the Elder (born Gaius Plinius Secundus, AD 23–79) was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, a naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and friend of emperor Vespasian.

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Polyphyly

A polyphyletic group is a set of organisms, or other evolving elements, that have been grouped together but do not share an immediate common ancestor.

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Polyyne

In chemistry, a polyyne is any organic compound with alternating single and triple bonds; that is, a series of consecutive alkynes, with n greater than 1.

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Robert Morison

Robert Morison (1620 – 10 November 1683) was a Scottish botanist and taxonomist.

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Sanicula europaea

Sanicula europaea (sanicle, wood sanicle) is a perennial plant of the family Apiaceae.

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Schizocarp

A schizocarp is a dry fruit that, when mature, splits up into mericarps.

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Shrub

A shrub or bush is a small to medium-sized woody plant.

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Silphium

Silphium (also known as silphion, laserwort, or laser) was a plant that was used in classical antiquity as a seasoning and as a medicine.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Stamen

The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Taproot

A taproot is a large, central, and dominant root from which other roots sprout laterally.

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Umbel

An umbel is an inflorescence that consists of a number of short flower stalks (called pedicels) which spread from a common point, somewhat like umbrella ribs.

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Water dropwort

The water dropworts, Oenanthe, are a genus of plants in the family Apiaceae.

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Yareta

Yareta or llareta (Azorella compacta, also known as "Llareta" in Spanish, and historically as Azorella yareta) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apiaceae

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