W. John Kress
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LOCATION: Washington, DC, United States
Head of Botany, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
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Caryophyllales, pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 37 families, which contain some 12,000 species in 722 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen species each. Caryophyllales is a diverse order that includes trees,…
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