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Leucosidea
Description | Leucosidea sericea, commonly known as ouhout in Afrikaans, is an evergreen tree or large shrub that grows in the Afromontane regions of southern Africa. It is the sole species in the genus Leucosidea. The English name "oldwood" is simply a direct translation of the Afrikaans words "ouhout" or "oudehout", meaning the same thing. This name may reflect the fact that the wood burns slowly as if old and rotting, but the gnarled twisted trunks reinforce this impression. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucosidea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Malacostraca : Decapoda : Leucosidea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | synonym -> Leucosiidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scientific Name | Leucosidea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucosidea |
References
Leach, W.E. (1817) The zoological miscellany : being descriptions of new, or interesting animals - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
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