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Pentas is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae.The genus is found in tropical and southern Africa, the Comoros, Madagascar, and the Arabian Peninsula. [1]The plants have hairy green leaves and clusters of flowers in shades of red, white, pink, and purple.
Pentas lanceolata, commonly known as Egyptian starcluster, [3] is a species of flowering plant in the madder family, Rubiaceae that is native to tropical Africa from Sudan to Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique, as well as Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula. [2]
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However, the term is widely used in scientific literature, specifically in agroforestry and environmental topics, to mean "home gardens". [2] The word pekarangan may be derived from karang, which means "perennial crops". [3] Scholars offer various definitions of the term "pekarangan". According to Sajogyo, it is a plot adjacent to a house, used ...
Shaped like a net or lattice; pierced with apertures, as with a cage. clavate Club-shaped. clavuncula In the Apocynaceae, an enlarged, drum-shaped stigma of which the sides and lower surface are the receptive zones. Coherent with the anther s or not. claw 1. A narrow, stalk-like, basal portion of a petal, sepal, or bract. 2.
An ornamental animal is an animal kept for display or curiosity, often in a park.A wide range of mammals, birds and fish have been kept as ornamental animals. Ornamental animals have often formed the basis of introduced populations, sometimes with negative ecological effects, but a history of being kept as ornamental animals has also preserved breeds, types and even species which have become ...
Lachnanthes ← [a] Lactuca sap ← Lagarosiphon ← Lagenaria ← Lagurus ← Lamium ← Lampranthus ← Illustration of Lathraea ← Leonotis ← Illustration of Leontodon ← Leontopodium ← Leonurus ← Leptotes ← Leucadendron ← Leucaena ← Leucanthemum and a butterfly ← Leucheria ← Ligularia ← Limnanthes ← Limnobium in an aquarium ← Limnocharis ← Limonium ← Liparis ← ...
They are considered to be a distinctive type of wetland usually devoid of fish, and thus allow the safe development of natal amphibian and insect species unable to withstand competition or predation by fish. Certain tropical fish lineages (such as killifishes) have however adapted to this habitat specifically. Vernal pools are a type of wetland.