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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #141] What are the species of the Grossulaceae family? Photo list

The family Grossulariaceae was previously classified under the Saxifragaceae family, but has been separated into the order Saxifragales. It consists of a single genus, Ribes, with approximately 150 species distributed in the temperate and subarctic regions of Eurasia, South America, and Northeast Africa. This article will discuss...

2022.12.09

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #135] What are the species of the Paeoniaceae family? Photo list

The family Paeoniaceae consists of perennial herbs or small shrubs. The leaves are alternate or basal, large, trifoliate, or somewhat pinnately compound, and lack stipules. The flowers are large, with 3-5 bluish-green sepals and petal-like petals without nectaries. Stamens are numerous. There is only one genus, Paeoniaceae, found in the Northern Hemisphere...

2022.11.30

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #125] What are the species of the Melia family? Photo list

The family Sabiaceae consists of trees, shrubs, and sometimes climbing woody plants. Leaves are alternate, simple or pinnately compound, and lack stipules. They produce cymes or racemes, sometimes panicles. Flowers are usually bisexual, sometimes unisexual, and bilaterally symmetrical. Sepals are 2-5, sometimes fused at the base, and arranged in a tile-like pattern. Petals are 4...

2022.11.21

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #119] What are the species of the poppy family? Photo list

The Papaveraceae family consists of herbaceous plants whose stems and leaves are often covered in a powdery white substance. Breaking the stem releases a milky white or orange-yellow sap. The leaves are alternate, pinnately lobed or pinnately compound, sometimes simple, and lack stipules. The flowers are bisexual, radially symmetrical, or bilaterally symmetrical. The sepals are 2-4 in number and separate...

2022.10.28

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #037] What are the species of the Lumpriaceae family? Photo list

The family Hernandiaceae consists of evergreen trees, shrubs, or vines. It comprises 5 genera and approximately 58 known species. They are distributed throughout tropical regions worldwide, with some species widely found in coastal areas, even at depths exceeding 2000 meters above sea level.

2022.07.28

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