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Actinic keratosis
Actinic keratosis (AK) is a pre-cancerous patch of thick, scaly, or crusty skin.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid
The Annals of the Botanical Garden of Madrid (Anales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, abbreviation Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid) is a Spanish publication specialized in botany.
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Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
The Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden is a long-established major peer-reviewed journal of botany, established in 1914 by the Missouri Botanical Garden, under the directorship of botanist and phycologist, George Thomas Moore, and still published quarterly by the Missouri Botanical Garden Press.
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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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Antonius Musa
Antonius Musa (Greek Ἀντώνιος Μούσας) was a Greek botanist and the Roman Emperor Augustus's physician; Antonius was a freedman who received freeborn status along with other honours.
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Asteraceae
Asteraceae or Compositae (commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite,Great Basin Wildflowers, Laird R. Blackwell, 2006, p. 275 or sunflower family) is a very large and widespread family of flowering plants (Angiospermae).
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August Grisebach
August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach was a German botanist and phytogeographer.
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Augustus
Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
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Basal (phylogenetics)
In phylogenetics, basal is the direction of the base (or root) of a rooted phylogenetic tree or cladogram.
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Betulin
Betulin is an abundant, naturally occurring triterpene.
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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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Botanical name
A botanical name is a formal scientific name conforming to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and, if it concerns a plant cultigen, the additional cultivar or Group epithets must conform to the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP).
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Bract
In botany, a bract is a modified or specialized leaf, especially one associated with a reproductive structure such as a flower, inflorescence axis or cone scale.
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C3 carbon fixation
carbon fixation is one of three metabolic pathways for carbon fixation in photosynthesis, along with c4 and CAM.
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C4 carbon fixation
C4 carbon fixation or the Hatch-Slack pathway is a photosynthetic process in some plants.
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Cactus
A cactus (plural: cacti, cactuses, or cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae,Although the spellings of botanical families have been largely standardized, there is little agreement among botanists as to how these names are to be pronounced.
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California Native Plant Society
The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is a California environmental non-profit organization (501(c)3) that seeks to increase understanding of California's native flora and to preserve it for future generations.
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Capsule (fruit)
In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry, though rarely fleshy dehiscent fruit produced by many species of angiosperms (flowering plants).
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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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Chamaesyce
Chamaesyce is a genus of plants in the family Euphorbiaceae.
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Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different lineages.
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Crassulacean acid metabolism
Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions.
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Cultivar
The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.
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Cyathium
A cyathium (plural: cyathia) is one of the specialised pseudanthia ("false flowers") forming the inflorescence of plants in the genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae).
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Dehiscence (botany)
Dehiscence is the splitting along a built-in line of weakness in a plant structure in order to release its contents, and is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia.
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Dioecy
Dioecy (Greek: διοικία "two households"; adjective form: dioecious) is a characteristic of a species, meaning that it has distinct male and female individual organisms.
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Diterpene
Diterpenes are a class of chemical compounds composed of two terpene units, often with the molecular formula C20H32.
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Elaiosome
Elaiosomes (Greek élaion "oil" and sóma "body") are fleshy structures that are attached to the seeds of many plant species.
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Ester
In chemistry, an ester is a chemical compound derived from an acid (organic or inorganic) in which at least one –OH (hydroxyl) group is replaced by an –O–alkyl (alkoxy) group.
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Euphorbia
Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae).
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Euphorbia abdelkuri
Euphorbia abdelkuri is a species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia actinoclada
Euphorbia actinoclada is a species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia albomarginata
Euphorbia albomarginata (formerly Chamaesyce albomarginata), whitemargin sandmat or rattlesnake weed, is a small low-growing annual, in the spurge family (Euphorbia, Euphorbiaceae) native to desert, chaparral, and grassland habitats of southwestern North America, from southern and central California to Northern Mexico and Louisiana.
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Euphorbia amygdaloides
Euphorbia amygdaloides (wood spurge) is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to woodland locations in Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus.
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Euphorbia antiquorum
Euphorbia antiquorum, known as antique spurge and "Euphorbia of the Ancients", is a species of succulent plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia antisyphilitica
Euphorbia antisyphilitica is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
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Euphorbia × martini
Euphorbia × martini, Martin’s spurge, is a hybrid between two species of flowering plant, ''E. amygdaloides'' × ''E. characias'' subsp.
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Euphorbia balsamifera
Euphorbia balsamifera is a flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
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Euphorbia bulbispina
Euphorbia bulbispina is a spiny plant of the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia canariensis
Euphorbia canariensis, commonly known as the Canary Island spurge, Hercules club or in Spanish cardón, is a succulent member of the genus Euphorbia and family Euphorbiaceae endemic to the Canary Islands.
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Euphorbia caput-medusae
Euphorbia caput-medusae ("Medusa's Head") is a plant of the genus Euphorbia that occurs in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
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Euphorbia celastroides
Euphorbia celastroides, previously also known as Chamaesyce celastroides, named akoko by the Hawaiians, is a species of spurge closely related to the poinsettia.
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Euphorbia ceratocarpa
Euphorbia ceratocarpa is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to the Island of Sicily and southern Italy.
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Euphorbia characias
Euphorbia characias (Mediterranean spurge or Albanian spurge) is a species of flowering plant in the Euphorbiaceae family typical of the Mediterranean vegetation.
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Euphorbia cotinifolia
Euphorbia cotinifolia is a broadleaf red shrub native to Mexico and South America.
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Euphorbia cyparissias
Euphorbia cyparissias, the cypress spurge, is a species of plant in the genus Euphorbia.
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Euphorbia decidua
Euphorbia decidua is a plant of the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia dendroides
Euphorbia dendroides, also known as tree spurge, is a small tree of the Euphorbiaceae family that grows in semi-arid and mediterranean climates.
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Euphorbia epithymoides
Euphorbia epithymoides (cushion spurge), syn. E. polychroma, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to Libya, Turkey and East, Middle, and Southeast Europe.
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Euphorbia esula
Euphorbia esula, commonly known as green spurge or leafy spurge, is a species of spurge native to central and southern Europe (north to England, the Netherlands, and Germany), and eastward through most of Asia north of the Himalaya to Korea and eastern Siberia.
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Euphorbia ferox
Euphorbia ferox is a species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia flanaganii
Euphorbia flanaganii belongs to the Euphorbiaceae family of plants.
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Euphorbia franckiana
Euphorbia franckiana is a species of spurge native to southern Africa.
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Euphorbia fulgens
Euphorbia fulgens, scarlet plume, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to Mexico.
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Euphorbia grantii
Euphorbia grantii is a species of succulent plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia gregersenii
Euphorbia gregersenii K. Maly, or Gregersen's spurge, is a plant in the family Euphorbiaceae: spurges.
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Euphorbia griffithii
Euphorbia griffithii, the Griffith's spurge, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to Bhutan, Tibet and south west China.
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Euphorbia helioscopia
Euphorbia helioscopia (sun spurge) is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
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Euphorbia heterophylla
Euphorbia heterophylla, also known under the common names of (Mexican) fireplant, painted euphorbia, Japanese poinsettia, desert poinsettia, wild poinsettia, fire on the mountain, paintedleaf, painted spurge, milkweed, and kaliko plant, is a plant belonging to the Euphorbiaceae or spurge family.
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Euphorbia hirta
Euphorbia hirta (sometimes called asthma-plant) is a pantropical weed, possibly native to India.
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Euphorbia horrida
Euphorbia horrida, the African milk barrel, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to South Africa.
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Euphorbia ingens
Euphorbia ingens is a species of plant in the genus Euphorbia and the family Euphorbiaceae.
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Euphorbia labatii
Euphorbia labatii is a rare endemic known only from a single locality in Antsiranana Province, Madagascar.
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Euphorbia lactea
Euphorbia lactea is a species of spurge native to tropical Asia, mainly in India.
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Euphorbia lathyris
Euphorbia lathyris (caper spurge or paper spurge) is a species of spurge native to southern Europe (France, Italy, Greece, northwest Africa, and eastward through southwest Asia to western China.Flora Europaea: Blamey, M. & Grey-Wilson, C. (1989). Flora of Britain and Northern Europe. Other names occasionally used include gopher spurge, gopher plant or mole plant.
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Euphorbia leuconeura
Euphorbia leuconeura, the Madagascar jewel, is a species of plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia maculata
Euphorbia maculata, variously called spotted spurge or prostrate spurge, the latter name not to be confused with Euphorbia prostrata, is a fast-growing annual plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, native to North America.
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Euphorbia mammillaris
Euphorbia mammillaris (often mis-spelled Euphorbia mamillaris) is a plant species endemic to Cape Province of South Africa.
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Euphorbia marginata
Euphorbia marginata (commonly known as snow-on-the-mountain, smoke-on-the-prairie, variegated spurge, or whitemargined spurge) is a small annual in the spurge family.
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Euphorbia maritae
Euphorbia maritae is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia milii
Euphorbia milii, the crown of thorns, Christ plant, or Christ thorn, also called Tu y Yo in Latin America, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaciae, native to Madagascar.
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Euphorbia myrsinites
Euphorbia myrsinites, the myrtle spurge, blue spurge, or broad-leaved glaucous-spurge, is a succulent species of the spurge (family Euphorbiaceae).
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Euphorbia obesa
Euphorbia obesa is a subtropical succulent species of Euphorbia genus.
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Euphorbia paralias
Euphorbia paralias (sea spurge) is a species of Euphorbia, native to Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia.
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Euphorbia pekinensis
Euphorbia pekinensis, the Peking spurge, is a flowering plant native to Asia.
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Euphorbia peplis
Euphorbia peplis (purple spurge) is a species of Euphorbia, native to southern and western Europe, northern Africa, and southwestern Asia, where it typically grows on coastal sand and shingle.
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Euphorbia peplus
Euphorbia peplus (petty spurge, radium weed, cancer weed, or milkweed) is a species of Euphorbia, native to most of Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, where it typically grows in cultivated arable land, gardens, and other disturbed land.
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Euphorbia psammogeton
Euphorbia psammogeton, commonly known as sand spurge, is a flowering plant in the Euphorbiaceae family.
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Euphorbia purpurea
Euphorbia purpurea is a species of euphorb known by the common names Darlington's glade spurge, glade spurge, and purple spurge.
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Euphorbia resinifera
Euphorbia resinifera (Resin spurge) is a species of spurge native to Morocco, where it occurs on the slopes of the Atlas Mountains.
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Euphorbia rigida
Euphorbia rigida, also known as gopher spurge or upright myrtle spurge, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family Euphorbiaceae, native to southern Europe and southwest Asia.
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Euphorbia serrata
Euphorbia serrata is a species of spurge known by the common names serrated spurge and sawtooth spurge.
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Euphorbia tirucalli
Euphorbia tirucalli (also known as aveloz, firestick plants, Indian tree spurge, naked lady, pencil tree, pencil cactus, sticks on fire or milk bush) (Sanskrit: सप्तला saptala, सातला satala,Marathi: sher-kandvel शेर-कांडवेल) is a tree that grows in semi-arid tropical climates.
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Euphorbia tithymaloides
Euphorbia tithymaloides is a perennial succulent spurge.
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Euphorbia trigona
Euphorbia trigona (also known as African milk tree,Timothy K. Broschat, Alan W. Meerow. Betrock's Reference Guide to Florida Landscape Plants. Betrock Information Systems, 1991. p. 123. cathedral cactus, Abyssinian euphorbia, and high chaparall) is a perennial plant that originally comes from Central Africa.
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Euphorbia virosa
Euphorbia virosa, the Gifboom or poison tree, is a plant of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae.
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Euphorbiaceae
The Euphorbiaceae, the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants.
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Euphorbus (physician)
Euphorbus was the Greek physician of Juba II.
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Euphoria
Euphoria is an affective state in which a person experiences pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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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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Flora of Tropical East Africa
The Flora of Tropical East Africa (FTEA) is a catalogue of all 12,104 known wild plant species in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania.
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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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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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Giant leopard moth
The giant leopard moth or eyed tiger moth (Hypercompe scribonia) is a moth of the family Erebidae.
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Gland
A gland is a group of cells in an animal's body that synthesizes substances (such as hormones) for release into the bloodstream (endocrine gland) or into cavities inside the body or its outer surface (exocrine gland).
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Greece in the Roman era
Greece in the Roman era describes the period of Greek history when it was dominated by the Roman republic, the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire (collectively, the Roman era).
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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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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Hyles euphorbiae
Hyles euphorbiae (spurge hawk-moth) is a European moth of the family Sphingidae.
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Hyles tithymali
Hyles tithymali is a moth of the family Sphingidae.
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Inflammation
Inflammation (from inflammatio) is part of the complex biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants, and is a protective response involving immune cells, blood vessels, and molecular mediators.
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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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Ingenol mebutate
Ingenol mebutate (ingenol-3-angelate, PEP005, LEO Pharma trade name Picato) is a substance found in the sap of the plant Euphorbia peplus and an inducer of cell death.
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International Association for Plant Taxonomy
The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names.
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Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water.
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JAMA Ophthalmology
JAMA Ophthalmology (formerly Archives of Ophthalmology) is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering all aspects of ophthalmology.
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Juba II
Juba II (Berber: Yuba, ⵢⵓⴱⴰ; Latin: IVBA, Juba; Ἰóβας, Ἰóβα or Ἰούβας)Roller, Duane W. (2003) The World of Juba II and Kleopatra Selene "Routledge (UK)".
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Larva
A larva (plural: larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into adults.
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Latex
Latex is a stable dispersion (emulsion) of polymer microparticles in an aqueous medium.
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Laxative
Laxatives, purgatives, or aperients are substances that loosen stools and increase bowel movements.
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Leaf
A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.
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Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera is an order of insects that includes butterflies and moths (both are called lepidopterans).
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List of Euphorbia species
Euphorbia is a highly diverse plant genus, comprising some 5,000 currently accepted taxa.
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List of the largest genera of flowering plants
There are 57 genera of flowering plants estimated to contain at least 500 described species.
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Madagascar
Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.
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Middle English
Middle English (ME) is collectively the varieties of the English language spoken after the Norman Conquest (1066) until the late 15th century; scholarly opinion varies but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period of 1150 to 1500.
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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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Natural history
Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms including animals, fungi and plants in their environment; leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study.
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Nectar
Nectar is a sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide antiherbivore protection.
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Numidia
Numidia (202 BC – 40 BC, Berber: Inumiden) was an ancient Berber kingdom of the Numidians, located in what is now Algeria and a smaller part of Tunisia and Libya in the Berber world, in North Africa.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; Modern French: ancien français) was the language spoken in Northern France from the 8th century to the 14th century.
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The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
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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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Peru
Peru (Perú; Piruw Republika; Piruw Suyu), officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America.
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Petal
Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.
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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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Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
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Poinsettia
The poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima) is a commercially important plant species of the diverse spurge family (Euphorbiaceae).
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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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Pseudanthium
A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower"), also called a flower head or composite flower, is a special type of inflorescence, in which anything from a small cluster to hundreds or sometimes thousands of flowers are grouped together to form a single flower-like structure.
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Roger Turner (garden designer)
Roger Turner is a British garden designer and writer of gardening-related non-fiction books.
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Root
In vascular plants, the root is the organ of a plant that typically lies below the surface of the soil.
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Rumex
The docks and sorrels, genus Rumex L., are a genus of about 200 species of annual, biennial, and perennial herbs in the buckwheat family Polygonaceae.
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Section (botany)
In botany, a section (sectio) is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species.
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Seed
A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.
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Senecio
Senecio is a genus of the daisy family (Asteraceae) that includes ragworts and groundsels.
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Sepal
A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).
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Sister group
A sister group or sister taxon is a phylogenetic term denoting the closest relatives of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.
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Species Plantarum
Species Plantarum (Latin for "The Species of Plants") is a book by Carl Linnaeus, originally published in 1753, which lists every species of plant known at the time, classified into genera.
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Springer Science+Business Media
Springer Science+Business Media or Springer, part of Springer Nature since 2015, is a global publishing company that publishes books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.
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Stamen
The stamen (plural stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.
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Stem succulent
Stem succulents are fleshy succulent columnar shaped plants which conduct photosynthesis mainly through stems not leaves.
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Stipule
In botany, stipule (Latin stipula: straw, stalk) is a term coined by LinnaeusConcise English Dictionary Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
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Storage organ
A storage organ is a part of a plant specifically modified for storage of energy (generally in the form of carbohydrates) or water.
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Subgenus
In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
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Subtropics
The subtropics are geographic and climate zones located roughly between the tropics at latitude 23.5° (the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn) and temperate zones (normally referring to latitudes 35–66.5°) north and south of the Equator.
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Succulent plant
In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants that have some parts that are more than normally thickened and fleshy, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.
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Taxon
In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.
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Temperate climate
In geography, the temperate or tepid climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
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Thorns, spines, and prickles
In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called spinose teeth or spinose apical processes), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaves, roots, stems or buds with sharp, stiff ends, and generally serve the same function: physically deterring animals from eating the plant material.
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Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is a style of traditional medicine built on a foundation of more than 2,500 years of Chinese medical practice that includes various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage (tui na), exercise (qigong), and dietary therapy, but recently also influenced by modern Western medicine.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Triterpene
Triterpenes are a class of chemical compounds composed of three terpene units with the molecular formula C30H48; they may also be thought of as consisting of six isoprene units.
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Tropics
The tropics are a region of the Earth surrounding the Equator.
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Turkish language
Turkish, also referred to as Istanbul Turkish, is the most widely spoken of the Turkic languages, with around 10–15 million native speakers in Southeast Europe (mostly in East and Western Thrace) and 60–65 million native speakers in Western Asia (mostly in Anatolia).
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Type genus
In biological classification, especially zoology, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
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Xerophyte
A xerophyte (from Greek ξηρός xeros dry, φυτόν phuton plant) is a species of plant that has adaptations to survive in an environment with little liquid water, such as a desert or an ice- or snow-covered region in the Alps or the Arctic.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia
