Protea, the Glossary
Protea is a genus of South African flowering plants, also called sugarbushes (Afrikaans: suikerbos).[1]
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125 relations: Afrikaans, Afromontane, Amplified fragment length polymorphism, Angola, Cape Floristic Region, Cape of Good Hope, Carl Linnaeus, Chaparral, Clanwilliam, South Africa, Cut flowers, Flowering plant, Genetic incompatibility, Genus, Gondwana, Grafting, Grassland, Grevillea, Guinea, Gynoecium, Herman Boerhaave, Kenya, Late Cretaceous, Leucadendron, Leucadendron argenteum, Leucospermum, Limpopo River, Madagascar, Makhanda, South Africa, Mount Kenya National Park, Mozambique, Perianth, Plants of the World Online, Protea acaulos, Protea acuminata, Protea angolensis, Protea angustata, Protea aristata, Protea aspera, Protea asymmetrica, Protea aurea, Protea burchellii, Protea caespitosa, Protea caffra, Protea canaliculata, Protea compacta, Protea comptonii, Protea convexa, Protea coronata, Protea cryophila, Protea curvata, ... Expand index (75 more) »
Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language, spoken in South Africa, Namibia and (to a lesser extent) Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Afromontane
The Afromontane regions are subregions of the Afrotropical realm, one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms, covering the plant and animal species found in the mountains of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula.
Amplified fragment length polymorphism
Amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP-PCR or AFLP) is a PCR-based tool used in genetics research, DNA fingerprinting, and in the practice of genetic engineering.
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Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Cape Floristic Region
The Cape Floral Region is a floristic region located near the southern tip of South Africa.
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Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope (Kaap die Goeie Hoop) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
Chaparral
Chaparral is a shrubland plant community found primarily in California, in southern Oregon and in the northern portion of the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico.
Clanwilliam, South Africa
Clanwilliam is a town in the Olifants River valley in the Western Cape, South Africa, about north of Cape Town.
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Cut flowers
Cut flowers are flowers and flower buds (often with some stem and leaf) that have been cut from the plant bearing it.
Flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae, commonly called angiosperms.
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Genetic incompatibility
Genetic incompatibility describes the process by which mating yields offspring that are nonviable, prone to disease, or genetically defective in some way.
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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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Gondwana
Gondwana was a large landmass, sometimes referred to as a supercontinent.
Grafting
Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together.
Grassland
A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae).
Grevillea
Grevillea, commonly known as spider flowers, is a genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the family Proteaceae. Protea and Grevillea are Proteaceae genera.
Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.
Gynoecium
Gynoecium (gynoecia) is most commonly used as a collective term for the parts of a flower that produce ovules and ultimately develop into the fruit and seeds.
Herman Boerhaave
Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." The British Medical Journal 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25..) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous Period is divided in the geologic time scale.
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Leucadendron
Leucadendron is a genus of about 80 species of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to the Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, where they are a prominent part of the fynbos ecoregion and vegetation type. Protea and Leucadendron are Proteaceae genera.
Leucadendron argenteum
Leucadendron argenteum (silver tree, silver leaf tree, Witteboom, or Silwerboom) is an endangered plant species in the family Proteaceae, which is endemic to a small area of the Cape Peninsula, South Africa.
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Leucospermum
Leucospermum is a genus of evergreen upright, sometimes creeping shrubs that is assigned to the Proteaceae, with currently forty-eight known species. Protea and Leucospermum are Proteaceae genera.
Limpopo River
The Limpopo River rises in South Africa and flows generally eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
Madagascar
Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.
Makhanda, South Africa
Makhanda, formerly known as Grahamstown, is a town of about 75,000 people in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.
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Mount Kenya National Park
Mount Kenya National Park was established in 1949 to protect Mount Kenya, the wildlife, and the surrounding environment, which forms a habitat for wild animals, as well as acting as an area for the catchment of water, to supply Kenya's water.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
Perianth
The perianth (perigonium, perigon or perigone in monocots) is the non-reproductive part of the flower, and structure that forms an envelope surrounding the sexual organs, consisting of the calyx (sepals) and the corolla (petals) or tepals when called a perigone.
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Protea acaulos
Protea acaulos, also known as the common ground sugarbush, is a flowering plant found in the southwestern Cape Region, South Africa.
Protea acuminata
Protea acuminata, also known in English as the black-rim sugarbush, or in the Afrikaans language as sederbergsuikerbos, is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
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Protea angolensis
Protea angolensis is also known as the Angolan protea, northern protea or northern sugarbush.
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Protea angustata
Protea angustata, also known as the Kleinmond sugarbush, is a flowering shrub that belongs to the genus Protea.
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Protea aristata
Protea aristata is a compact shrub with beautiful flowers which is endemic to the southwestern part of the Cape Region of South Africa.
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Protea aspera
Protea aspera, commonly known as rough leaf sugar bush or aardroos suikerbos, is a flowering shrub that belongs to the well-known Protea genus.
Protea asymmetrica
Protea asymmetrica, also known as the Inyanga sugarbush, is a flowering plant, named for its asymmetric flowerheads, of the family Proteaceae and endemic to Zimbabwe and the Nyanga region, where it grows in grasslands, as well as Mount Nyangani.
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Protea aurea
Protea aurea, the long-bud sugarbush, is a shrub or small tree with a single trunk occurring in mountain fynbos, usually on cool, moist, southern slopes.
Protea burchellii
Protea burchellii, also known as Burchell's sugarbush, is a flowering shrub in the genus Protea, which is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa.
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Protea caespitosa
Protea caespitosa, also known as hottentot bishop sugarbush or bishop sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea which is only found growing in the wild in South Africa.
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Protea caffra
Protea caffra (sometimes called the common protea), native to South Africa, is a small tree or shrub which occurs in open or wooded grassland, usually on rocky ridges.
Protea canaliculata
Protea canaliculata, also known as the groove-leaf sugarbush, is a species of flowering shrub of the genus Protea, which is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.
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Protea compacta
Protea compacta is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.
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Protea comptonii
Protea comptonii, also known as saddleback sugarbush, is a smallish tree of the genus Protea in the family Proteaceae.
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Protea convexa
Protea convexa, also known as large-leaf sugarbush, is a rare flowering shrub in the genus Protea of the family Proteaceae, which is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa.
Protea coronata
Protea coronata is an erect shrub usually growing tall, but known to reach.
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Protea cryophila
Protea cryophila, the snowball sugarbush, snow protea, or snowball protea, is a flowering shrub of the genus Protea.
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Protea curvata
Protea curvata (Serpentine sugarbush, Serpentynsuikerbos) is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.
Protea cynaroides
Protea cynaroides, also called the king protea (from koningsprotea, isiQwane sobukumkani), is a flowering plant.
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Protea denticulata
Protea denticulata, commonly known as the tooth-leaf sugarbush, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae native to the southwestern Cape Provinces of South Africa.
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Protea dracomontana
Protea dracomontana, the Nyanga protea or the Drakensberg sugarbush, is a flowering plant that belongs within the genus Protea.
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Protea effusa
Protea effusa, sometimes known as the scarlet sugarbush, is a flowering plant which belongs to the genus Protea.
Protea enervis
Protea enervis, also known as the Chimanimani sugarbush, is a flowering shrub.
Protea eximia
Protea eximia, the broad-leaved sugarbush, is a shrub from South Africa that may become a small tree.
Protea foliosa
Protea foliosa, also known as the leafy sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea in the family Proteaceae which is endemic to the Cape Region of South Africa.
Protea gaguedi
Protea gaguedi is a species of tree which belongs to the genus Protea.
Protea glabra
Protea glabra, also called the Clanwilliam sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
Protea grandiceps
Protea grandiceps, commonly known as rooisuikerbos, suikerbos or red sugarbush, is a flowering shrub that belongs to the Protea genus and is native to south western parts of South Africa.
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Protea holosericea
Protea holosericea, commonly known as the Sawedge Sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the Protea genus.
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Protea inopina
Protea inopina, the large-nut sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the well-known Protea genus.
Protea intonsa
Protea intonsa, also known as the tufted sugarbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa, where it is distributed from the eastern Swartberg and Kammanassie Mountains to the Baviaanskloof mountains.
Protea lacticolor
Protea lacticolor or the Hottentot sugarbush, Hottentot white sugarbush or Hottentot's Holland sugarbush, is a flowering shrub of the Protea genus.
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Protea laetans
Protea laetans, the Blyde River protea or Blyde sugarbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.
Protea laevis
Protea laevis, also known as the smooth-leaf sugarbush, is a flowering shrub that belongs within the genus Protea.
Protea lanceolata
Protea lanceolata is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae.
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Protea laurifolia
Protea laurifolia, also known as the grey-leaf sugarbush, is a shrub from South Africa.
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Protea lepidocarpodendron
Protea lepidocarpodendron, the black bearded sugarbush, is a bearded Protea that is placed in the section Speciosae.
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Protea longifolia
Protea longifolia, commonly known as the long-leaf sugarbush, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae that is native to the southwestern Cape Provinces of South Africa.
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Protea lorea
Protea lorea, also known as the thong-leaf sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
Protea lorifolia
Protea lorifolia, in English called the strap-leaved sugarbush, strap-leaved protea or strap-leaf sugarbush is a flowering shrub which belongs to the genus Protea.
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Protea madiensis
Protea madiensis, commonly known as the tall woodland sugarbush, is a flowering shrub which belongs to the genus Protea.
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Protea magnifica
Protea magnifica, commonly known as the queen protea, is a shrub, which belongs to the genus Protea within the family Proteaceae, and which is native to South Africa.
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Protea montana
Protea montana also known as the Swartberg sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea within the family Proteaceae, which is endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa.
Protea mundii
Protea mundii, the forest sugarbush, is a flowering shrub native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa, growing in forest margins at elevation.
Protea namaquana
Protea namaquana, also known as the Kamiesberg sugarbush, is a flowering plant which belongs to the genus Protea.
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Protea nana
Protea nana, also known as the mountain rose or mountain-rose sugarbush, is a flowering shrub which belongs within the genus Protea.
Protea neriifolia
Protea neriifolia, also known as the narrow-leaf sugarbush, oleander-leaved sugarbush, blue sugarbush, or the oleanderleaf protea, is a flowering plant in the genus Protea, which is endemic to South Africa.
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Protea nitida
Protea nitida, commonly called wagon tree, waboom or blousuikerbos, is a large, slow-growing Protea endemic to South Africa.
Protea nubigena
Protea nubigena, commonly known as cloud sugarbush, is a very rare species of a flowering shrub belonging to the Protea genus.
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Protea obtusifolia
Protea obtusifolia is a species of Protea.
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Protea parvula
Protea parvula, also known as the dainty sugarbush, or kleinsuikerbos in Afrikaans, is a small flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
Protea pendula
Protea pendula, also known as the nodding sugarbush or arid sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea, in the family Proteaceae, which is only found growing in the wild in the Cape Region of South Africa.
Protea petiolaris
Protea petiolaris, also known as the sickle-leaf sugarbush, is a tree in the Proteaceae family, found in Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
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Protea piscina
Protea piscina, also given the vernacular name Visgat sugarbush, is a shrub of the family Proteaceae that is native to South Africa.
Protea pityphylla
Protea pityphylla, also known as Ceres sugarbush or mountain rose (along with a number of similar species), is a flowering shrub of the genus Protea, in the family Proteaceae.
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Protea pruinosa
Protea pruinosa, also known as frosted sugarbush or burnished protea, is a flowering shrub which belongs to the genus Protea within the botanical family Proteaceae.
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Protea pudens
Protea pudens, also known as the bashful sugarbush, is a low-growing, groundcover-like, flowering shrub in the genus Protea.
Protea punctata
Protea punctata, also known as the water sugarbush or water white sugarbush, is a shrub belonging to the genus Protea which is found growing in the wild in South Africa.
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Protea recondita
Protea recondita, also known as the hidden sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea within the family Proteaceae, which is endemic to the Cape Region of South Africa, and distributed from the Piketberg and Cederberg to the Groot Winterhoek mountains.
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Protea repens
Protea repens, known as the common sugarbush and in Afrikaans as the suikerbossie, is an erect shrub growing in the southern Cape Provinces of South Africa.
Protea restionifolia
Protea restionifolia, which is also known as the Reed-leaf sugarbush, is a flowering shrub endemic to the Western Cape province of South Africa where it is found from the upper part of the Breede River Valley through the Bot River Valley to Wolseley and the Koue Bokkeveld Mountains.
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Protea revoluta
Protea revoluta, also known as the roll-leaved sugarbush or rolled-leaf sugarbush, is a species of plant which is classified in the genus Protea.
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Protea roupelliae
Protea roupelliae is a species of Protea in the large family Proteaceae, and was named to commemorate Arabella Elizabeth Roupell (1817-1914) who spent two years in Cape Town and painted local flowers for her own pleasure.
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Protea rubropilosa
Protea rubropilosa, also known as the Transvaal sugarbush, escarpment sugarbush or Transvaal mountain sugarbush, is a flowering tree, that belongs to the genus Protea in the family Proteaceae.
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Protea rupestris
Protea rupestris, also known as rocket sugarbush, is a flower-bearing tree of the genus Protea.
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Protea rupicola
Protea rupicola, also known as the krantz sugarbush, is a flowering shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
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Protea scabra
Protea scabra, also known as the sandpaper-leaf sugarbush, is a flowering groundcover that belongs to the genus Protea.
Protea scabriuscula
Protea scabriuscula, also known as the hoary sugarbush or gray sugarbush, is a flowering shrub, endemic to the southwestern Cape Region of South Africa.
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Protea scolopendriifolia
Protea scolopendriifolia, also known as the harts-tongue-fern sugarbush or hart's-tongue-fern sugarbush, is a flowering shrub endemic to South Africa, where it occurs in both the Western and Eastern Cape.
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Protea scolymocephala
Protea scolymocephala, also known as the thistle protea or thistle sugarbush, is a flowering plant from the genus Protea native to South Africa.
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Protea scorzonerifolia
Protea scorzonerifolia, the channel-leaf sugarbush, is a flower-bearing shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
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Protea simplex
Protea simplex, the dwarf grassveld sugarbush, is a flower-bearing shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
Protea speciosa
Protea speciosa, also known as the brown-beard sugarbush, is a flowering shrub which is classified as within the genus Protea.
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Protea stokoei
Protea stokoei is a flowering shrub which belongs to the genus Protea.
Protea subvestita
Protea subvestita, the waterlily sugarbush, is a flower bearing shrub that belongs to the well-known genus Protea.
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Protea sulphurea
Protea sulphurea, also known as the sulphur sugarbush, is a flowering plant of the genus Protea in the family Proteaceae, which is only known to grow in the wild in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
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Protea susannae
Protea susannae, also known as stink-leaf sugarbush, is a flower-bearing shrub of the genus Protea.
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Protea tenax
Protea tenax also known as the tenacious sugarbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa and distributed in the Outeniqua, Tsitsikamma, Kouga and Winterhoek mountains as well as the Baviaanskloof.
Protea venusta
Protea venusta, the cascade sugarbush or creeping beauty, is a flower-bearing shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
Protea vogtsiae
Protea vogtsiae, also known as the Kouga sugarbush, is a small flowering shrub of the genus Protea within the family Proteaceae, which is only found growing in the wild in the southern Cape Region of South Africa.
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Protea welwitschii
Protea welwitschii is a species of shrub or small tree which belongs to the genus Protea, and which occurs in bushveld and different types of grassland.
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Protea wentzeliana
Protea wentzeliana, also known as Wentzel's sugarbush, is a shrub belonging to the genus Protea.
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Protea witzenbergiana
Protea witzenbergiana, or Swan sugarbush, is a flowering shrub of the genus Protea.
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Proteaceae
The Proteaceae form a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere.
Proteoideae
Proteoideae is one of the five subfamilies of the plant family Proteaceae.
Proteus
In Greek mythology, Proteus (Prōteús) is an early prophetic sea god or god of rivers and oceanic bodies of water, one of several deities whom Homer calls the "Old Man of the Sea" (hálios gérôn).
RAPD
RAPD may refer to.
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Receptacle (botany)
In botany, the receptacle refers to vegetative tissues near the end of reproductive stems that are situated below or encase the reproductive organs.
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Self-incompatibility
Self-incompatibility (SI) is a general name for several genetic mechanisms that prevent self-fertilization in sexually reproducing organisms, and thus encourage outcrossing and allogamy.
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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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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
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Type genus
In biological taxonomy, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protea
Also known as Protea roupelliae roupelliae.
, Protea cynaroides, Protea denticulata, Protea dracomontana, Protea effusa, Protea enervis, Protea eximia, Protea foliosa, Protea gaguedi, Protea glabra, Protea grandiceps, Protea holosericea, Protea inopina, Protea intonsa, Protea lacticolor, Protea laetans, Protea laevis, Protea lanceolata, Protea laurifolia, Protea lepidocarpodendron, Protea longifolia, Protea lorea, Protea lorifolia, Protea madiensis, Protea magnifica, Protea montana, Protea mundii, Protea namaquana, Protea nana, Protea neriifolia, Protea nitida, Protea nubigena, Protea obtusifolia, Protea parvula, Protea pendula, Protea petiolaris, Protea piscina, Protea pityphylla, Protea pruinosa, Protea pudens, Protea punctata, Protea recondita, Protea repens, Protea restionifolia, Protea revoluta, Protea roupelliae, Protea rubropilosa, Protea rupestris, Protea rupicola, Protea scabra, Protea scabriuscula, Protea scolopendriifolia, Protea scolymocephala, Protea scorzonerifolia, Protea simplex, Protea speciosa, Protea stokoei, Protea subvestita, Protea sulphurea, Protea susannae, Protea tenax, Protea venusta, Protea vogtsiae, Protea welwitschii, Protea wentzeliana, Protea witzenbergiana, Proteaceae, Proteoideae, Proteus, RAPD, Receptacle (botany), Self-incompatibility, Self-pollination, Sudan, Type genus, Uganda.