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Vegetation also includes Casuarina, grasses such as Thuorna insula and Lepturus sp.,
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Herbfields dominated by Stenotaphrum micranthum, Lepturus repens, and Ipomoea pes-capreae are present at the tops of numerous ocean beaches.
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There are also a few shrubs, and an herb layer with low species diversity that may include Lepturus repens, Thuarea involuta, Fimbristylis cymosa, and Polypodium scolopendria.
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There are three vegetation types: a Tournefortia scrub forest with Cordia and Pisonia, a Lepturus grass cover with Tribulus cistoides and Portulaca lutea, and a Pemphis scrub margins on the lagoon side of the atoll.
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The driest and lowest islands have an extremely simple flora, usually dominated by grass (Lepturus repens) and Tribulus cistoides or Portulaca lutea, sometimes with areas of T. argentea, P. acidula, and S. taccada scrub.
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Herbaceous vegetation includes sparse grassland (Lepturus repens) mixed with patches of Portulaca spp.,
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