diverse insect fauna. Most of the diversity of the family in the Western Hemisphere is concentrated in the genus Quercus, with the greatest number of species
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(Liriodendron). Mostly in Asia, the Pacific Islands, and the Western Hemisphere. Genera ca. 6(-12), species ca. 220 (2 genera, 9 species in the flora). Magnoliaceae
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classification of the Ranunculaceae with special reference to the Western Hemisphere. Phytologia 70: 24-27. Tamura, M. 1963. Morphology, ecology and phylogeny
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with the margins incurved over the upper glumes; upper glumes keeled; florets bisexual; lemmas hyaline, bifid almost to the base, awned from the cleft;
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compound and simple papillae towards the apices, x = 9. There are approximately 50 species of Panicum subg. Panicum in the Western Hemisphere (Zuloaga
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cotyledons fleshy and oily, variously lobed. Western Hemisphere and Eurasia. Genera 7, species 59 (2 genera, 17 species in the flora). The fruit in Juglandaceae
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ridge. x = 29. Most in the Western Hemisphere, a small number in Asia, Africa, the Pacific Islands, and Australia. Pellaea in the broad sense is a diverse
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Islands). Species ca. 33 (7 in the flora). Stillingia is distributed primarily in the warmer regions of the western hemisphere, with a major center of diversity
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generic and infrageneric classification of L. D. Benson (1948), who gave by far the most thorough and best documented study of the problem. The genus and its
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sub¬tropical, and warm-temperate regions throughout the world. Seventy-three species are native to the Western Hemisphere; 27 are native to the Flora region
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abundant in wet forests of warm temperate and tropical regions. In the Western Hemisphere, its range extends from the southern United States through South America
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glands present. x = 11. Mostly Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia. Species ca. 30 (24 in the flora). Beal, E. O., J. W. Wooten, and R. B. Kaul. 1982. Review of
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taxa native to the Western Hemisphere, disarticulation is acropetal and the lemmas fall with the caryopses, leaving the paleas attached to the rachilla. Nathaniel
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transversely dehiscent. Mostly tropical and subtropical, Western Hemisphere, Africa, Asia (China). Species ca. 60 (3 in the flora). None. Burmannia biflora, Burmannia
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Primarily tropical, Western Hemisphere, Africa (including Madagascar). Genera 6, species ca. 20 (1 genus, 1 species in the flora). The family was placed
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disturbed ground. There are about seven species in the Western Hemisphere, but only three grow in the Flora region. None. Panicum dichotomiflorum, Panicum
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regions. Species 4 (1 in the flora). Duncan, W. H. and M. Mellinger. 1972. Edgeworthia (Thymelaeaceae) new to the Western Hemisphere. Rhodora 74: 436–439.
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approximately 12 species of Panicum sect. Repentia in the Western Hemisphere, four of which grow in the Flora region. The species generally inhabit wet sites, growing
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pools and lakes Elevation: 0–50 m Generated Map Legacy Map Introduced; La., native, Asia, Africa, Australia. Blyxa aubertii is known in the Western Hemisphere
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regions, Western Hemisphere. Species 5 (1 in the flora). Fassett, N. C. 1953. A monograph of Cabomba. Castanea 13: 116-128. Ørgaard, M. 1991. The genus Cabomba
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a widespread species of the Western Hemisphere tropics. It was collected in the early 1960s in Dade County, Florida, near the track of a major hurricane
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mariscus of Europe and Asia; C. mariscus subsp. jamaicense (Crantz) Kükenthal of the Western Hemisphere, Africa, and Hawaii; and C. mariscus subsp. intermedium
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beak, 3-ribbed, 1-locular. Tropical regions, Western Hemisphere. Species over 1000 (7 in the flora). Outside the flora area Epidendrum is highly varied (E
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a genus of the Western Hemisphere with its center of diversity in Mexico, has about 40 species; all 19 species treated here are native to the Flora region
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Disarticulation in the rames, beneath the pistillate spikelets and at the base of the staminate portions. Pistillate spikelets exposed, solitary, embedded in the indurate
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approximately 100 tropical and subtropical species, most of which are native to the Western Hemisphere. Three species are native to the Flora region; one additional
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9. Three species of Panicum sect. Monticola grow in the Western Hemisphere. Two species grow in the Flora region, one of which is native to Asia. None.
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wings absent, glands often present. Western Hemisphere. Species 26 (4 in the flora). Fassett, N. C. 1955. Echinodorus in the American tropics. Rhodora 57: 133--156
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standleyi alliance) form a coherent, monophyletic group found only in the Western Hemisphere. The correct generic name for this group is in dispute because Notholaena
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mutual pressure. x = 8. Western Hemisphere, especially Mexico. Species 24 (3 in the flora). Schoenocaulon has rarely been collected in the United States in recent
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to obovoid. Tropical regions, Western Hemisphere. Species ca. 650 (2 in the flora). Atwood, J. T. 1993. A revision of the Maxillaria neglecta complex (Orchidaceae)
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Fruits capsules. Subtropics and tropics, Western Hemisphere. Species 35 (1 in the flora). Kooser, R. G. and G. C. Kennedy. 1979. The genus Brassia R. Brown
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absent. x = 12. Tropical and subtropical regions, Western Hemisphere. Species ca. 150 (3 in the flora). Persea americana Miller, the avocado of commerce, with
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Fruits capsules. Tropical and subtropical, Western Hemisphere. Species 800 (1 in the flora). Oncidium is a large polymorphic, and probably paraphyletic, assemblage
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10–200, ovoid, testa with longitudinal wings. Western Hemisphere, Africa Species 12 (7 in the flora). In the flora area, Heteranthera peduncularis Bentham
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Southeast Asia, ca. 16 species in Western Hemisphere. Species 40–100 (4 in the flora). The four species of Goodyera in the flora are sometimes difficult to
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solitary spikelets embedded in and radial to the rachises, the abaxial surface of the upper glumes exposed; disarticulation at the rachis nodes. Spikelets dorsiventrally
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Tropical regions, Western Hemisphere. Species 9 (1 in the flora). Ames, O. and C. Schweinfurth. 1935. Nomenclatural studies in Malaxis and Spiranthes. Bot
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± triangular in cross section. Tropical and subtropical regions of Western Hemisphere. Species 10–12 (1 in the flora). None. Macradenia lutescens window
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rostellum not prominent. Fruits capsules. Tropical and subtropical regions, Western Hemisphere. Species 2 (1 in the flora). None. Ionopsis utricularioides window
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native to the tropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, especially Africa and India, but with one, Tripogon spicatus, native to the Western Hemisphere. None. Tripogon
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centered on the Mediterranean, and three in the Western Hemisphere, centered in Mexico. All five species in the Flora region are Eurasian. Four of the five species
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known from several other western states. It was first collected in the Western Hemisphere in the late 1800s from shipyard areas in and around Philadelphia,
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follicles and suspended by funiculi. x=19. Temperate and tropical regions, Western Hemisphere, Asia (Himalayas, China, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Indonesia)
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cyclindric. Fruits capsules. Montane tropical regions, Western Hemisphere. Species 9 (1 in the flora). None. Schiedeella arizonica window.propertiesFr
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using the more recent and clarified ICBN (Melbourne Code), correctly argued that the name of the segregated genus should be Chamaenerion, and that opinion
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represented by one genus in the Western Hemisphere, Pharus. Clark, L.G., W. Zhang, and J.E Wendel. 1995. A phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae) based on ndhF
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of 12 species, native to the tropics and subtropics of the Eastern Hemisphere, and possibly to the Western Hemisphere. All the species grow in or near water
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approximately 12 species, most of which are native to the Western Hemisphere; four are native to the Flora region and three have been introduced. It is, in many ways
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latifolia, is northern temperate and circumboreal. The other three species are restricted to the Western Hemisphere. Cinna poaeformis (Kunth) Scribn.
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300-400 species, most of which are native to the Western Hemisphere. Forty-three species are found in the Flora region; twenty-four are native. Paspalum
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species and occurs extremely rarely in North America (see M. G. Shivas 1969 and M. D. Windham 1983 for a discussion of the conspecificity of Western Hemisphere
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grows throughout the tropical and warm-temperate regions of the world. Only one species has been introduced to the Western Hemisphere. Arundo is similar
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ovoid, smooth. Western Hemisphere. Species 6 (1 in the flora). Fernald, M. L. 1925. Pontederia versus Unisema. Rhodora 27: 76–81. Horn, C. N. and R. R. Haynes
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grow in the tropics and subtropics, and occupy a wide range of habitats. Twenty-five species are native to the Western Hemisphere, but none to the Flora
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Munroa, a genus of five species, is endemic to the Western Hemisphere. One species occurs in the Flora region, the remainder being confined to South America
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Temperate and tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere. Species ca. 16 (5 in the flora). Froelichia is most abundant in the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts
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before 2500 B.C., and became an important crop in China after the Mongolian conquest. It was introduced to the Western Hemisphere in the early sixteenth
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soils. Five species are native to the Eastern Hemisphere and two to the Western Hemisphere, one of which is native to the Flora region. None. Trichoneura
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(3 in the flora). Philonotis fontana has a Holarctic distribution with limited penetration into the montane tropics of both Eastern and Western Hemispheres
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which may well be identical to the one from the Western Hemisphere. None. None. window.propertiesFromHigherTaxa=[{"rank":"genus","name":"Leptopterigynandrum"
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flowers and pair of glands at the base of the leaf blade. Subspecies asiatica (Kobiakova) Heiser is centered in Asia and the Pacific Islands and is morphologically
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five species, grows in saline soils of the coasts and interior deserts of the Western Hemisphere and Australia. All the species grow in South America, but
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open, sandy areas in warm-temperate and tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere. A single species is native the Flora region. It is sometimes included
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abundant in humid areas. In the Western Hemisphere, it grows from the United States to Argentina and Chile. None. None. window.propertiesFromHigherTaxa=[{"rank":"genus"
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was apparently introduced to the Western Hemisphere from Asia. It is now common throughout the West Indies, but rare in the Flora region. None. None. window
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1982. Distributional records for Nymphaea lotus (Nymphaeaceae) in the Western Hemisphere. Sida 9: 230-234. None. window.propertiesFromHigherTaxa=[{"rank":"genus"
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morphological characters appear to be correlated with the chemical races. No other Western Hemisphere species of Juniperus has been found to have leaf-oil
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complex). Mostly Western Hemisphere but a few in Europe, Asia, Africa, Pacific Islands, and Australia. Cheilanthes is by far the largest and most diverse genus
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stoloniferous (the stolons to 6 m), sterile. Basal sheaths glabrous or hirsute. 2n = 27 (for Digitaria decumbens Stent). In the Western Hemisphere, D. eriantha
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bryoides- and taxifolius-types the trabeculae on the exterior surface of the undivided parts are higher and distinct from the lamellae. On the other hand, the
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Malvoideae native in the Western Hemisphere. Reports of glade mallow in areas outside its natural range derive from confusion between it and Sida hermaphrodita
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America, native, Asia. Murdannia nudiflora is found in the tropical areas of the Western Hemisphere. None. None. window.propertiesFromHigherTaxa=[{"rank":"genus"
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genus of the Western Hemisphere. It has approximately 155 species. Sixty-nine of the 70 species treated here are native to the Flora region. The other species
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Sporobolus tenuissimus is native to the Western Hemisphere, and introduced to Africa and Asia. Its native distribution in the Americas is tropical, extending
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Epidendrum rigidum is the most widespread and common epidendrum in the tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere. In Mexico and Central America it is
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arundinaceum is native to, and most common, in Africa, but some strains have been introduced into the Western Hemisphere. None. None. window.properti
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rocky slopes of the highest peaks and ridges in the alpine zone, from northern British Columbia to western Alberta and south to California and Colorado, usually
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three diploid species native to the Western Hemisphere. Poa pseudoabbreviata is easily distinguished from all other alpine and arctic species of Poa by its
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is widespread and common throughout the tropical regions of the Western Hemisphere. Outside the flora area, the size of stems, leaves, and flowers is somewhat
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to Africa, and is considered a noxious weed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In the Western Hemisphere, it has been introduced into the southern United
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record and a majority of the subfamilies are represented in the Paleocene or Eocene. Tilia (Tilioideae) fossil pollen and leaves are present in western North
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native to the Western Hemisphere, extending south from the western United States into northern Mexico, and through the American tropics to Argentina and Bolivia
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Staminate panicles and spikelets similar to the pistillate panicles and spikelets, but the lemmas somewhat thinner in texture and the paleas not bowed-out
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closer relationship with the African species, and the western New World species a closer one with the Australian species, than the two New World groups have
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bare soil after summer rains. In the Western Hemisphere, it is known from Berkeley and Florence counties, South Carolina, and Argentina. None. None. window
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some Pacific Islands, and northern Australia. The major diversification of the family probably occurred in the mid-Cenozoic, and was associated with climatic
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occur from the seashore to the highest mountains in the United States. They are among the last plants seen atop the Sierra Nevada and on the “outskirts”
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of subsp. agrestis was presumably brought to the Western Hemisphere by humans intentionally (for example, by Asian immigrants) or unintentionally (for example
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dominant in the vegetation of large regions including, in the flora area, forests of the boreal and Pacific regions, of the western mountains, and of the southeastern
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58 (51 in the flora). Among the Ceanothus species found in the flora area, only three occur entirely east of the Rocky Mountains. Among the remaining species
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outer sepals and to the petals as staminodes. Ernst, W. R. 1964. The genera of Berberidaceae, Lardizabalaceae, and Menispermaceae in the southeastern United
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including 3 hybrids, in the flora). The two genera not present in North America north of Mexico are the southeastern European-western Asian Sibiraea Maximowicz
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Species ca. 400 (90 in the flora). Quercus is without doubt one of the most important woody genera of the Northern Hemisphere. Historically, oaks have
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genera, 41 species in the flora). Members of Baeriinae are found mostly in western North America; there are disjuncts in western South America. H. Robinson
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species in the flora). To people in the northern hemisphere, the word mistletoe most often calls to mind a branch parasite in Viscaceae. In Europe, the Christmas
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their uses and demonstrate the rich diversity within the genus. The common name ‘mugwort’ is from the Old English mucgwyrt, mucg meaning ‘midge,’ and refers
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warmer climates, such as the Mediterranean and the Southern Hemisphere. Of the 26 species known from the Flora region, 21 are native and 5 are introductions
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Texas. Adams, R. P. and T. A. Zanoni. 1979. The distribution, synonymy, and taxonomy of three junipers of the southwest United States and northern Mexico.
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North America, and the mountains of Mexico and Central America, and two genera also grow in the Andes to northern Argentina in South America. The remaining
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