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Dalea searlsiae, the Glossary

Dalea searlsiae, commonly known as Searls' prairie clover, is a perennial legume species belonging to the Dalea genus.^[1]

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Agricultural Research Service

The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the principal in-house research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

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Americas

The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.

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Amorpheae

The tribe Amorpheae is an early-branching clade within the flowering plant subfamily Faboideae or Papilionaceae.

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Anthidium

Anthidium is a genus of bees often called carder or potter bees, who use conifer resin, plant hairs, mud, or a mix of them to build nests.

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Antimicrobial

An antimicrobial is an agent that kills microorganisms (microbicide) or stops their growth (bacteriostatic agent).

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a landlocked state in the Southwestern region of the United States.

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Asa Gray

Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

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Bacillus

Bacillus (Latin "stick") is a genus of Gram-positive, rod-shaped bacteria, a member of the phylum Bacillota, with 266 named species.

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Bee

Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants, known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee, for producing honey.

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Biogeography

Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.

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Bloating

Abdominal bloating (or simply bloating) is a short-term disease that affects the gastrointestinal tract.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Bumblebee

A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.

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Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Chihuahua (state)

Chihuahua, officially the Estado Libre y Soberano de Chihuahua (Free and Sovereign State of Chihuahua), is one of the 31 states which, along with Mexico City, comprise the 32 federal entities of Mexico.

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Chromatography

In chemical analysis, chromatography is a laboratory technique for the separation of a mixture into its components.

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Chromosome

A chromosome is a package of DNA with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Clover

Clover, also called trefoil, are plants of the genus Trifolium (from Latin tres 'three' + folium 'leaf'), consisting of about 300 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae originating in Europe.

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Colletes

The genus Colletes (plasterer bees or cellophane bees) is a large group of ground-nesting bees of the family Colletidae.

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Colorado Plateau

The Colorado Plateau is a physiographic and desert region of the Intermontane Plateaus, roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States.

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Common descent

Common descent is a concept in evolutionary biology applicable when one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time.

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A community is a social unit (a group of living things) with a shared socially significant characteristic, such as place, set of norms, culture, religion, values, customs, or identity.

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Controlled burn

A controlled or prescribed (Rx) burn is the practice of intentionally setting a fire to change the assemblage of vegetation and decaying material in a landscape.

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Dalea

Dalea is a genus of flowering plants in the legume family, Fabaceae.

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Dalea ornata

Dalea ornata, the Blue Mountain prairie clover, is a perennial subshrub or herb of the subfamily Faboideae in the pea family (Fabaceae). Dalea searlsiae and Dalea ornata are Dalea, Flora of Nevada and Flora of the Great Basin.

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Deciduous

In the fields of horticulture and botany, the term deciduous means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit.

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Deserts and xeric shrublands

Deserts and xeric shrublands are a biome defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature. Dalea searlsiae and Deserts and xeric shrublands are Flora of the California desert regions and north American desert flora.

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Ecology

Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Elevation

The elevation of a geographic ''location'' is its height above or below a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface (see Geodetic datum § Vertical datum).

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Eucera

Eucera is a genus of bees in the family Apidae, which comprises more than 100 species.

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Evolutionary pressure

Evolutionary pressure, selective pressure or selection pressure is exerted by factors that reduce or increase reproductive success in a portion of a population, driving natural selection.

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Fabaceae

The Fabaceae or Leguminosae, Article 18.5 states: "The following names, of long usage, are treated as validly published:....Leguminosae (nom. alt.: Fabaceae; type: Faba Mill.);...

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Fanny Searls

Fanny Searls (September 21, 1851 – May 24, 1939), also known by her married name Fanny Gradle, was an American physician and botanical collector.

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Fir

Firs are evergreen coniferous trees belonging to the genus Abies in the family Pinaceae.

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Fitness (biology)

Fitness (often denoted w or ω in population genetics models) is a quantitative representation of individual reproductive success.

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Flavanone

The flavanones, a type of flavonoids, are various aromatic, colorless ketones derived from flavone that often occur in plants as glycosides.

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Flower

A flower, also known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Angiospermae).

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Fly

Flies are insects of the order Diptera, the name being derived from the Greek δι- di- "two", and πτερόν pteron "wing".

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Forest

A forest is an ecosystem characterized by a dense community of trees.

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Gene flow

In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.

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Genetic drift

Genetic drift, also known as random genetic drift, allelic drift or the Wright effect, refers to random fluctuations in the frequency of an existing gene variant (allele) in a population.

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Genetic testing

Genetic testing, also known as DNA testing, is used to identify changes in DNA sequence or chromosome structure.

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Genotype

The genotype of an organism is its complete set of genetic material.

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Germplasm

Germplasm refers to genetic resources such as seeds, tissues, and DNA sequences that are maintained for the purpose of animal and plant breeding, conservation efforts, agriculture, and other research uses.

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Glossary of leaf morphology

The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.

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Glossary of plant morphology

This page provides a glossary of plant morphology.

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Hardiness zone

A hardiness zone is a geographic area defined as having a certain average annual minimum temperature, a factor relevant to the survival of many plants.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Inflorescence

An inflorescence, in a flowering plant, is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches.

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Insecticide

Insecticides are pesticides used to kill insects.

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Juniper

Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Land restoration

Land restoration, which may include renaturalisation or rewilding, is the process of restoring land to a different or previous state with an intended purpose.

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Leaflet (botany)

A leaflet (occasionally called foliole) in botany is a leaf-like part of a compound leaf.

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Legume

Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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Local adaptation

Local adaptation is a mechanism in evolutionary biology whereby a population of organisms evolves to be more well-suited to its local environment than other members of the same species that live elsewhere.

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Locus (genetics)

In genetics, a locus (loci) is a specific, fixed position on a chromosome where a particular gene or genetic marker is located.

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Marina (plant)

Marina is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae.

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Melissodes

Melissodes is a genus of long-horned bees in the family Apidae.

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A metapopulation consists of a group of spatially separated populations of the same species which interact at some level.

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Mexico–United States border

The Mexico–United States border (frontera Estados Unidos–México) is an international border separating Mexico and the United States, extending from the Pacific Ocean in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the east.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Monophyly

In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.

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Nevada

Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Nitrogen

Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.

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Nitrogen fixation

Nitrogen fixation is a chemical process by which molecular dinitrogen is converted into ammonia.

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing occurs when plants are exposed to intensive grazing for extended periods of time, or without sufficient recovery periods.

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Ovule

In seed plants, the ovule is the structure that gives rise to and contains the female reproductive cells.

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Perennial

In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.

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Phenotype

In genetics, the phenotype is the set of observable characteristics or traits of an organism.

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Phenotypic plasticity

Phenotypic plasticity refers to some of the changes in an organism's behavior, morphology and physiology in response to a unique environment.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Ploidy

Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.

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Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from an anther of a plant to the stigma of a plant, later enabling fertilisation and the production of seeds.

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Pollinator

A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma of a flower.

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Population genetics

Population genetics is a subfield of genetics that deals with genetic differences within and among populations, and is a part of evolutionary biology.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls from clouds due to gravitational pull.

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Principal component analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a linear dimensionality reduction technique with applications in exploratory data analysis, visualization and data preprocessing.

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Protein (nutrient)

Proteins are essential nutrients for the human body.

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Psorothamnus

Psorothamnus is a genus of plants in the legume family. Dalea searlsiae and Psorothamnus are Flora of the California desert regions, Flora of the Great Basin and natural history of the Mojave Desert.

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Rangeland

Rangelands are grasslands, shrublands, woodlands, wetlands, and deserts that are grazed by domestic livestock or wild animals.

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Revegetation

Revegetation is the process of replanting and rebuilding the soil of disturbed land.

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Rhizobia

Rhizobia are diazotrophic bacteria that fix nitrogen after becoming established inside the root nodules of legumes (Fabaceae).

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Rotenoid

Rotenoids are naturally occurring substances containing a cis-fused tetrahydrochromenochromene nucleus.

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Rupert Charles Barneby

Rupert Charles Barneby (6 October 1911 – 5 December 2000) was a British-born self-taught botanist whose primary specialty was the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), the pea family, but he also worked on Menispermaceae and numerous other groups.

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Sand

Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles.

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Self-pollination

Self-pollination is a form of pollination in which pollen from one plant arrives at the stigma of a flower (in flowering plants) or at the ovule (in gymnosperms) of the same plant.

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Sheep

Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.

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Sister group

In phylogenetics, a sister group or sister taxon, also called an adelphotaxon, comprises the closest relative(s) of another given unit in an evolutionary tree.

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Spruce

A spruce is a tree of the genus Picea, a genus of about 40 species of coniferous evergreen trees in the family Pinaceae, found in the northern temperate and boreal (taiga) regions of the Earth.

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Stamen

The stamen (stamina or stamens) is the pollen-producing reproductive organ of a flower.

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Staphylococcus

Staphylococcus is a genus of Gram-positive bacteria in the family Staphylococcaceae from the order Bacillales.

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Streptococcus

Streptococcus is a genus of gram-positive or spherical bacteria that belongs to the family Streptococcaceae, within the order Lactobacillales (lactic acid bacteria), in the phylum Bacillota.

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Sulfuric acid

Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalea_searlsiae

Also known as Searles' prairie clover, Searls' prairie clover.

, Glossary of plant morphology, Hardiness zone, Herbivore, Inflorescence, Insecticide, Juniper, Land restoration, Leaflet (botany), Legume, Limestone, Local adaptation, Locus (genetics), Marina (plant), Melissodes, Metapopulation, Mexico–United States border, Molecular phylogenetics, Monophyly, Nevada, New World, Nitrogen, Nitrogen fixation, Overgrazing, Ovule, Perennial, Phenotype, Phenotypic plasticity, Pine, Plant reproductive morphology, Ploidy, Pollination, Pollinator, Population genetics, Precipitation, Principal component analysis, Protein (nutrient), Psorothamnus, Rangeland, Revegetation, Rhizobia, Rotenoid, Rupert Charles Barneby, Sand, Self-pollination, Sheep, Sister group, Spruce, Stamen, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, Sulfuric acid, Symbiosis, Taproot, Toxin, United States, Utah, Wasp, Wildfire.

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