''Lepidagathis alopecuroidea'',
synonym
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'' Teliostachya alopecuroidea'',
[ the ''pata de gallina'',]plant
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with a wide distribution in the Americas (from southern Mexico to northern Paraguay
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) and Africa (from west tropical Africa to east Tanzania
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and Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
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See also
* List of plants of Cerrado vegetation of Brazil
This is a list of plants found in the wild in cerrado vegetation of Brazil.
Acanthaceae
* '' Anisacanthus'' '' trilobus'' Lindau
* '' Dianthera angustifolia'' (Nees) Benth. & Hook.f. ex B.D.Jacks.
* '' Dicliptera'' '' mucronifolia'' Nees
* '' ...
References
External links
''Teliostachya alopecuroidea''
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Southern America
Flora of the Afrotropical realm
alopecuroidea
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