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Subjects
Subjects term Scope note Archival description count People & Organisations count
marine algae

Use for: Seaweed

  • Restricted exclusively to saline or brackish ocean environments.
  • Marine algae live naturally in seas and oceans around the world. They include seaweeds and tiny plants suspended in the water. They can look like green flakes, greenish bundles or brownish dots.
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maps

Use for: plans

  • a: a representation usually on a flat surface of the whole or a part of an area
  • b: a representation of the celestial sphere or a part of it
  • c: a diagram or other visual representation that shows the relative position of the parts of something
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Manners and customs (1)

Use for: Ceremonies, Social customs, Social life and customs, Folkways, Traditions

  • Here are entered general works on folkways, customs, ceremonies, festivals, popular traditions, etc., treated collectively.
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Malvaceae Juss. (1)

Use for: Mallows

  • A plant family containing species of herbs, shrubs, and trees. Representatives occur in all except the coldest parts of the world but are most numerous in the tropics. A number of species are economically important, including cotton (various Gossypium species), cacao (Theobroma cacao), linden (Tilia species), durian (Durio species), Hibiscus, and okra (Abelmoschus esculentus).
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Magnoliaceae Juss. (1)
  • a family of shrubs and trees (order Ranales), having bisexual flowers, stamens arranged spirally, and numerous simple pistils spirally arranged on an elongated axis
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Magnolia Plum. ex L.

Use for: Magnola

  • A plant genus of trees and shrubs of the family Magnoliaceae native to North and South America, the Himalayas, and East Asia. They are valued for their large and fragrant white, yellow, pink, or purple flowers and frequently handsome leaves and unusual fruits. Some are important garden ornamentals; others are local timber sources.
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Lycopodium
  • any of a large genus (Lycopodium) of erect or creeping club mosses with reduced or scalelike evergreen leaves
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Lycopodiaceae (1)

Use for: club moss

  • Family of seedless vascular plants constituting the only family of the lycophyte order Lycopodiales. The taxonomy of the family has been contentious, and the number of genera vary depending on the source. The plants are native mainly to tropical mountains but are also common in northern forests of both hemispheres.
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Logan Botanic Garden 0 0
Lilium Tourn. ex L.

Use for: lilies, lily

  • a genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the family Liliaceae, native to temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
  • Many lilies are prized as ornamental plants, and they have been extensively hybridized.
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