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  • 31Datiscaceae — ▪ plant family       family of the squash order (Cucurbitales) of flowering plants, with one genus. Datisca cannabina, which is found from the Mediterranean eastward to Central Asia, is a hemplike plant, 2 metres (7 feet) high, that has leaves… …

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  • 32Dipteridaceae — ▪ plant family       the umbrella fern family, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants (plant)). The family has a long fossil history dating back to the Triassic Period (250 to 200 million years ago), but it presently contains… …

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  • 33Fagales — ▪ plant order Introduction   beech order of dicotyledonous woody flowering plants, comprising nearly 1,900 species in 55 genera. Members of Fagales represent some of the most important temperate deciduous or evergreen trees of both hemispheres,… …

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  • 34Gentianaceae — ▪ plant family       the gentian family of the flowering plant order Gentianales, containing 87 genera and nearly 1,700 species of annual and perennial herbs and, rarely, shrubs, native primarily to northern temperate areas of the world. Members… …

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  • 35Hymenophyllaceae — ▪ plant family       the filmy fern family, containing 7 (or more) genera and some 600 species, in the division Pteridophyta (the lower vascular plants (plant)). The family is distributed in tropical regions around the world, with only a few… …

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  • 36jatropha — ▪ plant  (genus Jatropha), member of the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae), native in both New World and Old World tropics and containing about 175 species of milky juiced herbs, shrubs, and trees, some useful for their oils or as ornamental plants… …

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  • 37Papaveraceae — ▪ plant family       poppy family of the order Papaverales, with 44 genera and 760 species; most of these are herbaceous plants, but the family includes some woody shrubs and a genus of small tropical trees. The family is outstanding for its many …

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  • 38Boraginaceae — ▪ plant family   borage or forget me not family of flowering plants, with 148 genera and more than 2,700 species. In the earlier Cronquist botanical classification system, it was placed in the order Lamiales, and, in the first version of the… …

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  • 39Cyclanthaceae — ▪ plant order       the Panama hat palm order of monocotyledonous flowering plants, which has 11 genera of mostly stemless, perennial, palmlike herbs, woody herbaceous shrubs, and climbing vines that are distributed in Central America and… …

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  • 40Hypecoeae — ▪ plant tribe       tribe within the poppy family (Papaveraceae); members of the tribe were formerly in their own family, Hypecoaceae. The 15 species of the only genus, Hypecoum, are herbs containing a watery sap. All species have alternate,… …

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