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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A large genus of apetalous Australian shrubs of the order Proteaceæ and the tribe Proteæ, distinguished by its perfect flowers with four anthers sessile on the four calyx-lobes, and a filiform style dilated and spindle-shaped above, and by their growth in dense heads involucrate with colored bracts, becoming in fruit cones with persistent hardened scales, each inclosing a compressed nut containing a single winged or hairy seed.
- A superfamily of basommatophorous pulmonate gastropods, including the Siphonariidæ and Gadiniidæ. They have a patelliform shell, and live attached to rooks, mostly between tide-marks.
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Above 3,048 m there is alpine vegetation with alpine willow Salix petrophila, perennial herbs, grasses and sedges which are distinctive, sparse and low growing.
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Euphorbia waterbergensis, Hibiscus waterbergensis, and Aloe petrophila are examples of rare Waterberg endemics found in these reserves.
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P. 703, Marchantiales: "Marchantia polymorpha and Lunularia": 'Marchantia, polymorpha' in original p. 707, Fig. 14: "Andreaea petrophila": 'pelrophila' in original
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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