| Acaena lucida | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Acaena |
| Species: | A. lucida |
| Binomial name | |
| Acaena lucida | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
Acaena lucida is a small plant in the Rosaceae family, which is native to southern Chile, southern Argentina and the Falkland Islands. [2]
Acaena lucida was first formally described in 1789 by William Aiton, as Ancistrum lucidum, [2] [3] but was assigned to the genus, Acaena , by Martin Vahl in 1804. [2] [1]
The genus name (Acaena) is derived from the Ancient Greek word akaina meaning "thorn" or "spine", [4] and refers to the spiny hypanthium of many species of Acaena. The specific epithet, lucida, is Latin (lucidus, -a, -um) which means "shining", "clear" or "transparent", [5] [6] and in this instance was used by Aiton to mean "shining". [3]
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The Cyperaceae are a family of graminoid (grass-like), monocotyledonous flowering plants known as sedges. The family is large, with some 5,500 known species described in about 90 genera, the largest being the "true sedges" genus Carex with over 2,000 species.
William Aiton was a Scottish botanist.
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Cyrtanthus is a genus of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae.
Acaena magellanica, commonly called buzzy burr or greater burnet, is a species of flowering plant whose range includes the southern tip of South America and many subantarctic islands.
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Pseudoxandra lucida is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its shiny leaves.
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