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Adelia
''Adelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, subfamily Acalyphoideae. It is native to Latin America and the Caribbean, with one species extending northward into the southernmost part of Texas. The name is derived from the Greek words α (''a''), meaning "not", and δήλος (''delos''), meaning "visible." It refers to the difficulties Linnaeus experienced interpreting the genus. Species ;Current species include: # '' Adelia barbinervis'' Cham. & Schltdl. – hairynerve adelia - Mexico, N Central America # '' Adelia brandegeei'' V.W.Steinm. - Baja California Sur, Sonora # '' Adelia cinerea'' (Wiggins & Robbins) A.Cerv., V.W.Steinm. & Flores-Olvera - Sonora # '' Adelia membranifolia'' ( Müll.Arg.) Chodat & Hassl. - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina # '' Adelia oaxacana'' (Müll.Arg.) Hemsl. – Oaxaca Adelia - most of Mexico from San Luis Potosí + Sinaloa to Chiapas + Quintana Roo # '' Adelia obovata'' Wiggins & Robbins - So ...
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Adelia Vaseyi
''Adelia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, subfamily Acalyphoideae. It is native to Latin America and the Caribbean, with one species extending northward into the southernmost part of Texas. The name is derived from the Greek words α (''a''), meaning "not", and δήλος (''delos''), meaning "visible." It refers to the difficulties Linnaeus experienced interpreting the genus. Species ;Current species include: # '' Adelia barbinervis'' Cham. & Schltdl. – hairynerve adelia - Mexico, N Central America # '' Adelia brandegeei'' V.W.Steinm. - Baja California Sur, Sonora # '' Adelia cinerea'' (Wiggins & Robbins) A.Cerv., V.W.Steinm. & Flores-Olvera - Sonora # '' Adelia membranifolia'' ( Müll.Arg.) Chodat & Hassl. - Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, NE Argentina # '' Adelia oaxacana'' (Müll.Arg.) Hemsl. – Oaxaca Adelia - most of Mexico from San Luis Potosí + Sinaloa to Chiapas + Quintana Roo # '' Adelia obovata'' Wiggins & Robbins - Sono ...
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Adelia Barbinervis
''Adelia barbinervis'', commonly known as teenek, is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae, that is native to southern Mexico and northern Central America. The Huastec Maya cultivated the plant as a famine food, cooking the shoots and tender leaves as greens. It is common in milpa Milpa is a crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica. It has been most extensively described in the Yucatán peninsula area of Mexico. The word ''milpa'' is derived from the Nahuatl word phrase ''mil-pa'', which translates into "cultivated ... regrowth ecosystems. References Adelieae Flora of Central America Flora of Mexico {{Euphorb-stub ...
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Bernardia
''Bernardia'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described for modern science as a genus in 1754. It is native to North and South America, as well as the West Indies. ;Species ;Formerly included moved to other genera ''(Adelia, Adenophaedra ''Adenophaedra'' is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1874.Garciadelia, Lasiocroton, Tetracoccus ( Picrodendraceae))''


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Robert Hippolyte Chodat
Robert Hippolyte Chodat (4 June 1865, Moutier – 28 April 1934) was a Swiss botanist and phycologist who was a professor and director of the botanical institute at the University of Geneva. He studied medicine and botany at Geneva, where he was later a lecturer of pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it .... In 1889 he attained the title of associate professor, two years later becoming a full professor of medical and pharmaceutical botany. From 1900 onward, he taught classes in general and systematic botany. In 1908 he was appointed Rector (academia), rector at the University of Geneva. Chodat was a leading authority of the botanical family Polygalaceae. In 1914, with Emil Hassler (1864–1937), he collected plants in Región Oriental of Paraguay. He was made Cheva ...
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