Lunania
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Lunania is a genus of flowering plant
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family, Salicaceae
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Flowering plant
The flowering plants , also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. Angiosperms are seed-producing plants like the gymnosperms and can be distinguished from the gymnosperms by a series of synapomorphies...
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Willow
Willows, sallows, and osiers form the genus Salix, around 400 species of deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist soils in cold and temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere...
family, Salicaceae
Salicaceae
Salicaceae are a family of flowering plants. Recent genetic studies summarized by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has greatly expanded the circumscription of the family to contain 55 genera....
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Selected species
- Lunania cubensisLunania cubensisLunania cubensis is a species of plant in the Flacourtiaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.-Sources:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
Turczaninov - Lunania dodecandraLunania dodecandraLunania dodecandra is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba.-Sources:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
Wright - Lunania elongataLunania elongataLunania elongata is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Cuba. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* Areces-Mallea, A.E. 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
BrittonNathaniel Lord BrittonNathaniel Lord Britton was an American botanist and taxonomist who founded the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx, New York. Britton was born in New Dorp in Staten Island, New York...
& P.Wilson - Lunania polydactylaLunania polydactylaLunania polydactyla is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
Urban - Lunania racemosaLunania racemosaLunania racemosa is a species of plant in the Salicaceae family. It is endemic to Jamaica. It is threatened by habitat loss.-Sources:* World Conservation Monitoring Centre 1998. . Downloaded on 22 August 2007....
Hook.William Jackson HookerSir William Jackson Hooker, FRS was an English systematic botanist and organiser. He held the post of Regius Professor of Botany at Glasgow University, and was the first Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He enjoyed the friendship and support of Sir Joseph Banks for his exploring,...