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Carduus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae, and the tribe Cardueae, one of two genera considered to be true thistles, the other being Cirsium. [2] Plants of the genus are known commonly as plumeless thistles .
Centaurea (/ ˌ s ɛ n t ɔː ˈ r iː ə /) [1] is a genus of over 700 species of herbaceous thistle-like flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.Members of the genus are found only north of the equator, mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere; the Middle East and surrounding regions are particularly species-rich.
The blackish nightjar (Nyctipolus nigrescens) is a species of bird in the family Caprimulgidae. It is found in Brazil , Bolivia , Colombia , Ecuador , French Guiana , Guyana , Peru , Suriname , and Venezuela .
Christian Friedrich Lessing published Cynareae in 1830, but Henri Cassini had already published Cardueae in 1819, and as Lessing included Carduus in Cynareae, his name was superfluous. [4] [2] Some authors have divided the plants traditionally held to be in this tribe into three tribes: Cynareae in the narrow sense, Carlineae, and Echinopeae.
Crotalus molossus nigrescens, or the Mexican black-tailed rattlesnake, is a subspecies of black-tailed rattlesnake from Southern America. The name nigrescens comes from the Latin word "to become dark in colour".
The blackish antbird (Cercomacroides nigrescens) is a species of passerine bird in subfamily Thamnophilinae of family Thamnophilidae, the "typical antbirds". [2] It is found in Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Ecuador , French Guiana , Guyana , Peru , and Suriname .
It is a member of the Graphium policenes-clade (policenes, Graphium liponesco, Graphium biokoensis, Graphium policenoides, Graphium porthaon.). Aurivillius in Seitz places nigrescens (policenoides), policenes,sisenna (polistratus), polistratus, junodi, porthaon and colonna in the Policenes Group Subgroup 2 circumscribed Hindwing with a long, narrow tail of uniform width at vein 4.
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