A Detailed Map of North and South America's Plant Diversity (IMAGE)

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A Detailed Map of North and South America's Plant Diversity

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Kunhardtia rhodantha is in the family Rapateaceae, which is a family almost endemic to the Americas. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 22 Dec. 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by C. Ulloa Ulloa at Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Mo., and colleagues was titled, "An integrated assessment of the vascular plant species of the Americas."

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P. Berry

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