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The githyanki/illithid relationship was inspired by Larry Niven's World of Ptavvs. [159] [146] The githyanki were voted among the top ten best monsters from that White Dwarf's "Fiend Factory" column. [130] Shannon Applecline considered the githyanki one of the game's especially notable monsters.
Argyroxiphium is a small genus of plants in the family Asteraceae. [2] [3] Its members are known by the common names silversword or greensword due to their long, narrow leaves and the silvery hairs on some species.
The Haleakalā silversword, Argyroxiphium sandwicense subsp. macrocephalum, has numerous sword-like succulent leaves covered with silver hairs. Silversword plants in general grow on volcanic cinder, a dry, rocky substrate that is subject to freezing temperatures and high winds.
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Acererak first appears in the original Tomb of Horrors adventure (1978) by Gary Gygax as the main adversary. [1] One of the areas in the Tomb is a "Chapel of Evil", described as "obviously some form of temple area - there are scenes of normal life painted on the walls, but the people have rotting flesh, skeletal hands, worms eating them, etc." [3]: 5 The adventure described him as "a human ...
Robichaux, Robert H.; Friar, Elizabeth A.; Mount, David W. (1997-10-16). "Molecular Genetic Consequences of a Population Bottleneck Associated with Reintroduction of the Mauna Kea Silversword (Arg yroxiphium sandwicense ssp. sandwicense [Asteraceae]). Consecuencias Genetico-Moleculares de un Cuello de Botella Poblacional Asociado con la Reintroduccion de la Espad
The Mauna Kea silversword is an erect, single-stemmed and monocarpic or rarely branched and polycarpic basally woody herb, producing a globe-shaped cluster of thick, spirally arranged, sword-shaped silvery-green floccose-sericeous, linear-ligulate to linear-lanceolate leaves growing in a rosette.
The Mauna Loa silversword is a primarily monocarpic, single-stemmed rosette shrub. The shrub consists of a spherical rosette of many silvery, dagger-shaped leaves. [6] The silver reflection seen on the leaves is caused by the dense, felty leaf hairs that help to lower the UV absorption of the plant. [7]