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Ophiophagus kaalinga is endemic to the Western Ghats in southwestern India, found in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and parts of Maharashtra.Its range extends from the Ashambu hills near Kanyakumari through various mountain ranges, including the Agasthyamalai and Cardamom hills, reaching elevations of about 100 m to 1800 m above sea level.
The A to Z of Plant Names: A Quick Reference Guide to 4000 Garden Plants. Portland, Oregon: Timber Press. ISBN 978-1-60469-196-2. Cullen, Katherine E. (2006). Biology: The People Behind the Science. New York, New York: Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8160-7221-7. Gledhill, David (2008). The Names of Plants. New York, New York: Cambridge ...
Ophiophagy (Greek: ὄφις + φαγία, lit. ' snake eating ') is a specialized form of feeding or alimentary behavior of animals which hunt and eat snakes.There are ophiophagous mammals (such as the skunks and the mongooses), birds (such as snake eagles, the secretarybird, and some hawks), lizards (such as the common collared lizard), and even other snakes, such as the Central and South ...
The genus Ophioglossum has the highest chromosome counts of any known plant. The record holder is Ophioglossum reticulatum, with about 630 pairs of chromosomes (1260 chromosomes per cell). [3] Other measurements have indicated a chromosome number up to 1440 (n = 720). [4] For comparison, humans have 46 chromosomes, consisting of n = 23 pairs.
Ophiophagus bungarus, the Sunda king cobra, is a species of king cobra that inhabits areas south of the Kra Isthmus or land bridge joining the Malay Peninsula with the rest of southeast Asia or Indochina.
Wild plant 1.40 Gb 28,292 2017 [42] 57,409 scaffolds, scaffold N50 of 61.5 kb [42] Nepenthes mirabilis: Nepenthes: Carnivorous Plant 691 Mb 42,961 2023 [43] 159,555 contigs/scaffolds and N50 of 10,307 bp Suaeda aralocaspica: Amaranthaceae: Performs complete C 4 photosynthesis within individual cells (SCC 4) 467 Mb 29,604 ABLife Inc. 2019 [44]
This cactus from Brazil would be the longest plant name if the genus Austrocephalocereus was still accepted, but that name has been placed in synonymy with Micranthocereus dolichospermaticus (Buining & Brederoo) F.Ritter, [25] which has a mere 33 letters. Hydrogenoanaerobacterium saccharovorans Song & Dong 2009 - family Oscillospiraceae. [26]
Ophioglossum, the adder's-tongue ferns, is a genus of about 50 species of ferns in the family Ophioglossaceae. The name Ophioglossum comes from the Greek meaning "snake-tongue". [3] Their cosmopolitan distribution is mainly in tropical and subtropical habitats. [3]