straight. Nearly worldwide, especially rich in numbers of species and/or in numbers of plants in arid and semiarid regions of subtropical and lower to middle temperate
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widely in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. The enlarged storage roots of Manihot esculenta yield a starchy staple, now much consumed in tropical
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cold winters; it may be blurred in subtropical and tropical areas. In all cases, fertile stems die after fruiting. In most Carex, the only aboveground
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and naturalized in temperate and subtropical regions around the world. The evergreen pear, P. kawakamii, is widely cultivated, especially in California. This
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indistinctly papillose especially on veins of leaf blades abaxially, with fusiform, vertical rootstock. Stems erect, often flexuous in inflorescence, branched
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especially in tropical and subtropical regions. None. None. window.propertiesFromHigherTaxa=[{"rank":"subsection","name":"Chenopodium subsect. Undata"
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orange. x = 13–16. Worldwide in the tropics and subtropics, with extensions into temperate areas. Species ca. 350 (20 in the flora). The North American
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broadly rounded to acute, not hyaline; costa percurrent in proximal leaves to long-excurrent in distal leaves, awn pigmented proximally, hyaline distally
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1791). In the early 1900s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture attempted a campaign to introduce taro as a new root crop in frost-free zones in the southern
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species are popular as house plants, especially the ubiquitous Maranta leuconeura, in conservatories, and as ornamentals in tropical gardening. The most significant
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and is widely naturalized in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide. It appears to have been introduced into Florida in the 1920s and is continuing
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Islands, Australia, introduced in Bermuda. Species ca. 700 (36 in the flora). Species of Oxalis occur in the tropics and subtropics, mostly of North America
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species in one region represented closely related to species in the other. The fossil record indicates that in Tertiary times a widespread subtropical or warm
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Va., Mexico, introduced in subtropical, tropical, and warm-temperate New World and Old World. In some places, especially in Old World, Parthenium hysterophorus
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tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world. It seems likely that it occurs at least as a waif in more areas than indicated in currently available
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These play a role in colonization, especially in greenhouses, where plants are scattered from pot to pot by soil-borne gemmae. In certain species of prairie-inhabiting
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and V. vitis-idaea, in varying combinations. In some locations Carex spp. and a diverse array of lichens and mosses are especially abundant. The relative
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3-km uplift of the high plateaus in Tibet and in western North America in the Pliocene-Pleistocene were instrumental in provoking the late Tertiary trend
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[Milankovic](1941) hypothesized that variations in the earth's orbit around the sun result in cyclic variation in the amount of solar radiation received by the
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list of all works cited in volume 1. In the entries for articles, serial titles are cited by the abbreviated forms recommended in G.D.R. Bridson and E. R
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