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| you are hiking out at the pawnee buttes on the eastern plains and smell a horrible smell! the culprit apprears to be a small plant with mealy hairs. the flowers are minute and green and the plant is rather fleshy. |
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| you are walking along the margin of a lake and notice a dominant grass-like plant with a triangular stem. |
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| you are hiking near another pond when you notice another grass like plant growing in the water atound the margin. futher examination reveals that the stem is round and the flowers have 6, small brownish tepals |
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| you have happened upon a moist meadow filled with what appears to be cotton balls. the plants are grass-like and have small flowers with the tepals reduced to long hairs |
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| you are hiking on the eastern plains and notice a small, low-growing plant. it has zygomorphic, yellow flowers that are spurred, and a 3-carpellate, syncarpous gynoecium |
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| hiking in the alpine, you notice a white flowered plant with 6 tepals. the leaves are linear and the plant appears to come from a bulb |
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| you are hiking along a stream in the mountains, and the streambank is covered with one particular plant. the plant is scapose with reniform, toothed leaves |
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| hiking near horsetooth , you notice a bunch of large, rosette herbs with very sharp-pointed leaves that have thick fibers along the margins |
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| at horsetooth you see a pretty yellow-flowered, scapose plant. the flowers appear to have 6 tepals and are grouped together and surrounded by an involucre of fused bracts |
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| bright pink-flowered plant is growing in a small pond. you send your friend in to grap a sample for you and immediately see that there is a brown, papery acrea present at each node. |
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| you are walking along a stream in fort collins and see a beautiful tall blue flowered plant. the flowers are zygomorphic with anthers forming a tube around the style, and the plant has milky sap |
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| you are hiking through the forest and notice a low growing subshrub along the path. it has opposite, simple leaves and dainty, pink, sympetalous flowers in axillary pairs |
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| you are hiking through an aspen forest when you notice a purple flowered plant with palmately compound leaves. closer inspection reveals that the flowers are zygomorphic and the 10 stamen are diadelphous |
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| driving along a 4 wheel drive road you notice a small, pink flowered plant with large flowers. you stop to inspect it closer and see that the leaves are fleshy, there are numerous stamen, and only 2 sepals |
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| you are walkiong along a stream and notice a shrub with catkins and simple leaves growing |
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| once again you find yourself sending your friend out to get a plant in the middle of the lake. this time they bring back a plant with dissected leaves, and white flowers with numerous stamens and distinct carpels, and no hypanthium |
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| you are hiking at dusk when you notice a beautifull flower that you could swear was not there earlier. you get closer to take a look at the flovers and notice that the leaves and capsules are not stuck to your pants |
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| you are hiking in the foothills in the spring and notice a white flowered plant with opposit leaves and swollen nodes. the flowers are actinomorphic and the petals are cleft at the apex |
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| you notice a linear leaved plant growing on a rocky hillside. the flowers are pink and in an umble-like cluster. it takes a while, but you dig a plant up and see that there is a bulb present. |
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| you are hiking along a stream when you smell a delicious, minty aroma, you look around and see a plant with a square stem and purple flowers arranged in whorls |
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| ouch- you walked into a very spiny plant with a thick, fleshy stem! the flowers on the plant are red with numerous petals and an inferior ovary, and there are no true leaves present. |
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| you are hiking in Rocky mountain national park when you notice a tall plant with purplish blue, spurred, zygomorphic flowerss and palmately lobed leaves. you inspect closer and notice that the 3 carpels are distinct |
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| hiking along a stream you notice a white-flowered plant with compound umbles and pinnately compound leaves with sheathing bases |
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| you are hiking up in the alpine when you see a small, yellow flowered plant with alternate leaves. the flowers are 4-merous, hypogynous, and have 6 unequal stamen |
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| driving south of pueblo on i 25 you notice a large leaved, prostrate vine with tendrils growing along the roadside. you stop to inspect it, and notice that the flowers are imperfect and epigynous. you are immediately notice a very foetid odor. |
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| you are hiking in the montane zone, when you smell a skunk.. you stop to look around and dont see andything out of the ordinary. you do, however, notice a lot of one particular plant. as you get closer, you realize the skunk smell is coming from it. the plant has a sympetalous corolla, three carpels, and a superior ovary. |
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| you are hiking through a moist meadow and notice a pink-flowered plant with palmately lobed leaves. the flowers also have numerous stamens all unitied by their filaments to form a tube around the style |
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| hiking through a canyon in southeastern colorado, you come across a beautiful, red-flowered plant with opposite leaves. the flowers are zygomorphic and closer inspection reveals that there are 4 stamens with a 5th, bearded stamenode. |
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| you are inspecting the crops in your alfalfa field when you notice an unusual, parasitic vine wrapped around the stem. the flowers are white, hypogynous, and sympetalous with a plicate corolla. |
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| you are hiking along a stream in a moist, montane forest and notice a plant growing in the mossy understory. you look closely at the flowers and see that they are zygomorphic, epigynous, and that the bottom petal is very different from the others |
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| you are hiking on an adobe clay hillside on the western slope and notice a white flowered plant with opposite leaves. the actinomorphic flowers have petaloid sepals, and the flowers are grouped together and surrounded by an involuvre of distinct bracts |
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| you are hiking in the foothills and notice a low growing shrub with a fruit of 2 follicles with comose seeds. the shrub has opposit leaves, and when you pick one you notice milky sap |
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| you are driving out on the eastern plains and see a large field of purple flowers. you stop to inspect closer and see that the plant has opposite, simple leaves, and the flowers are zygomorphic in an indeterminate inflorescence |
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| you are hiking up in the mountains in the fall and see some unusual fruit on a plant with palmately lobed leaves. the fruit appears to be a shizocarp with tow mericarps spirralling up on a central beak |
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| hiking in rocky mountain national park, you cant help but notice a common understory, woody plant growing beneath the pine trees. the plant has leathery, simple leaves and urceolate flowers. |
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| what term best describes "perianth which is not differentiated into calyx and corolla? |
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| what term best describes "the region with spines" on a cactus |
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| what is the currently accepted standard ending for plant sub families |
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| which term best describes needle shaped |
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| what term best descrives" the fusion of the base of the calyx and fruit. |
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| what term best describes " the fusion of the base of the sepals, petals and stamens |
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| which of the following is something you DO NOT count in a flower to determine carple number |
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| what is the most diagnostic difference between angiosperms and gymnosperms |
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| gymnosperms have naked seeds |
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| which botanist saved the dype specimens from the great San Fransisco earthquake in 1906? |
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| what plant zone would you be in if you were at 6,000 ft in a pondo pine forest |
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| which statement about rare plants is not true |
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| they are globally widespread and common in distribution |
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| fern allies differ from true ferns by which of the following |
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| they have sporangia clustered into a terminal cone |
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| how does the fern life cycle differ from that of gymnosperms? |
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all of the above!
-ferns have and independent gametophytic generation
-ferns produce archeogonium and antheridia
-ferns produce spres instead of seeds |
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| which one is not a characteristic of a dicot? |
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| what family used to be separated from but is now placed with the amaranthaceae |
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| young fonds of ferns are called |
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| you are taking a walk by your house anc notice a weed growing out of a crack in the sidewalk. it has small, white flowers with 5 tepals, alternate leaves and a pepery sheath surrpounding the stem at the nodes. |
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| it is early spring and you notice a common shrub in the foothils full of fragrant, white, perigynous flowers. the flowers also have numerous stamens and are unicarpellate. |
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| you are walking in a sandy canyon in southeastern colorado, when you come upon an interesting shrub. the leaves are bipinnately compound and the flowers are actinoporphic and have numerous showy stamen and an inconspicuous perianth |
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| hiking in the alpin, you notice a white flowered plant with 6 tepals. the leaves are linear and the plant appears to come from a bulb |
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| you are walking along spring creek trail and notice an aquatic plant in the water . you examine it closer and see that the leaves are dimorphic- there are large, floating leaves, and linear, dissected suberged leaves |
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| walking along horsetooth resivoir, and yhou notice a spiny plant. the stems are flat and green and there are no leaves present. the flowers are showy, yellow, and solitary |
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| at horsetooth you see a pretty yellow- flowered, scapose plant. the flowers have 6 tepals and are grouped together and surrounded by an involucre of fused bracts |
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| HINKING ALONG A STEAM YOU NOTtice a scapose perennial herb with cordate leaves. the flowers are 5-merous, zygomorphic, purple, with a syncarpous gynoecium, and solitary on a nodding pedicel |
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| you are hiking along a sandy trial out on the pawnee nationsal grasslands when you see a low growing white flowered plant. the leaves are opposite and the flowers only have one whorl of perianth. all of the flowers are grouped together and surrounded by bracts |
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| someone has brought you a plant in fruit to identify. the fruit is a capsule, splitting into 3 parts, subtended by 2 persisten sepals. |
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| you are hiking along a barren shale ridge in western colorado and notice a pink flowered herb the corolla is distinctly zygomorphic and bilabiate, there are 4 fertile stames included in the corolla and 1 steril stamen that is densely covered in orange hairs sticking out of the corolla |
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| hiking in pondo pine forest, you notice an interesting plant. it is completely red, there is no chlorophyll present in this plant at all. the flowers are 3merous, zygomorphic and the lowest petal is very different from the others. |
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| hiking in the subalpine you notice the most beautiful scapose plant growing next to a small steam. it has bright pink flowers and upon closer inspection you notice that the flowers are 5merous, sympetalou, and the stamens are opposit the petals. |
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| walking along a dry mesa in western colorado, you come across a spiny plant with thick leaves arranged in a rosette. the fruit is a fleshy capsule that artificially resembles a banana. |
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| you are picking flowers for a bouquet, when on of the plants you pick gets orange sap all over your shirt. you notice that the white clowers have crumpled petals and numerous stamens |
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| walking through a moist meadow in the mountains, you notice a beautiful, bluish purple actinomorphic flower with 4 petals. the plant has opposite, sessile, entire leaves and the stem is 4-angled and winged |
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| you are hiking in the foothiles and notice a vine with white, polypetalous, hypogynous flowers. other flants are in fruit, consisting of numberous achenes with long, persistent styles. |
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| you are walking through a beaver meadow and see a large, compound umble. |
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| you are out canoeing in the middle of a lake when you see a mass of an aquatic plant. the leaves are finely dissected into filiform segments, and the emergent white flowers have numerous distinct carpels. |
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| you are riding your bike when you hit a rock and crash- ouch! well, while your down in the sidwalk you notice a weed growing nearby. the flowers are green and inconspicuous and arranged in a bracteate raceme |
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| you are crossing a stream to escape a swarm of angry bees and notice that growing all along the bank is a dominant shrub. it has alternate, stipulate leaves, and the flowers are arranged in catkins |
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| you are doing field research on marmots in the alpine and notice a beautiful, pink flowered cushion plant growing. the flowers are 5-merous, and the leavess are opposite with swollen nodes. |
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| yuo go for a hike in the foothills and get really hungry. you forgot all you food back in the car. you remember that some of these plants are dible, and notice that one donminant plant in the area has 6 tepals and the flowers arranged in an umble. you dig it up and see that it is a bulb that smells like an onion |
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| you are walking near horsetooth and notice a strong selenium odor. there is one plant that is very common in this area too, an you inspect it closer. it has yellow, 4-merous flowers with a superior ovary and tetradynamous stamens |
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| you are watching somekayakers while wlking along the poudre river, when you notice small shrub with opposite leaves nearby. it has pinkish flowers with a sympetalous corolla, and the fruit has comose seeds. when you pick a branch, white milky sap comes out |
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| you are hiking in the foothills on a dry rocky ridge when you notice a succulent low growing herb . the tellow flowers are polypetalous with a 5-carpellate, polycarpous gynoecium |
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| what term best describes stamens united by their filaments to form a tube around the style |
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| what term best describes a flat topped inflorescence |
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| which term best describes the stalk of an inflorescence (that is not solitary) |
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| what term best describes a dry, one seeded, indhiscent fruit with the seed coat fused to the pericarp |
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| that botanist was a splitter and was said to practice "bughole botany" when he named new species of plats |
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| what is the most poisonous plant in the world |
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| the portion of the ovary bearing ovules is |
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| what plant zone would you be at if you were at 11,000ft |
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| what is the traditional family name for the poaceae family |
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| what type of fruit do memebers of the myctaginaceae famlity have |
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| what characteristic makes the potamogetonaceae an unusual monocot |
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| when writing a scientific name you should always |
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| what is the tallest plant in the world |
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| which gymnosperm only produces two leaves in it entire life |
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| which amaranthaceae grows in colorado and is poisonous to sheep |
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| which genus in polygonaceae does not have an ocrea |
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| which genus of cactaceae is considered the most primitive |
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| the botanist known as the father of american botany |
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| who was nicknamed old curious and the father of western botany |
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| who was the king of colorado botany |
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| euphorbia inflorescence is called |
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| asteraceae inflorescence is called |
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| the androecium of asteraceae consists of 5 stamen which are fused together by |
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| bracts on the receptical of asteraceae is |
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| a pappus is actually a... |
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| in grasses flowers are arranged in... |
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| the connectin structure between the pollinia of adjacent anthers is called the |
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| the structure formed from the fusion of the anthers with the stigmatic region is called the |
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| the bracts completely surrounding the head of asteraceae are called |
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| the roots of some epiphytic orchids have a thick spongy layer called |
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| the twisting of the flower 180 degrees during development is called |
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| the stigmas, styles and androecium of orchidiceae are united to form the |
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| some orchids grow on other plants but do not draw food or water from the other plants which is called |
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| the uppermost bract of a grass floret is called the |
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| the pair of sacs at the base of a grass floret are called |
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| the stem of a grass plant is called the |
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| in cyperaceae the fruit type is a(n)... |
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| cyperaceae leaves are ______ ranked |
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