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  • noun Plural form of therophyte.

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  • The main types of desert communities are: wormwood deserts (Artemisia lerchiana) with ephemeroids (Poa bulbosa, Catabrosella humilis, etc.); Salsola nodulosa - and S. ericoides-deserts; halophytic Salsola denroides-deserts (both with ephemeroids and Artemisia lerchiana) and halophytic wormwood deserts (Artemisia szowitziana) with therophytes, such as Petrosimonia, Climacopters, Salicornia, Gamanthus species.

    Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe 2008

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