Interesting Facts
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Description
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Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -1 meters (-3 feet).[1]
Biome: Coastal.
Taxonomy
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- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
)
- Plants
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Vascular Plants
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Dicotyledons
- Order:
Caryophyllales
()
- Family:
Stegnospermataceae
()
- Genus:
Stegnosperma
()
- Bentham, 1844
- Specific epithet:
scandens
- (Lunan) Standl.
- Botanical name: - Stegnosperma scandens (Lunan) Standl.
- Specific epithet:
scandens
- (Lunan) Standl.
- Genus:
Stegnosperma
(
- Family:
Stegnospermataceae
(
- Order:
Caryophyllales
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
Synonyms
Trichilia Scandens
Notes
Publishing author
: Standl. Publication
: Publ. Field
Mus. Nat. Hist.,
Bot. Ser. 23: 6 1943
Basionym
author: (Lunan)
Similar Species
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Members of the genus Stegnosperma
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Further Reading
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Notes
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Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:
- Comisión nacional para el conocimiento y uso de la biodiversidad: Herbario del Instituto de Ecología, A.C., México (IE-BAJIO)
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 8536497
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15730462
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:676525-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1362933
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 7.810 based on 3 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
