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Mutisia
Mutisia L.f. is a genus of about 65 accepted species of tendrilled lianas and scrambling shrubs in Asteraceae, tribe Mutisieae, native to the Andes and southern South America, with showy heads and hummingbird pollination.
Myco-heterotrophy in orchids
Myco-heterotrophy in orchids: all orchids germinate on fungal carbon because their seeds lack reserves; some stay fully fungal-fed, while mixotrophic green orchids combine photosynthesis with fungal carbon, detected by 13C, 15N, and 2H isotope enrichment.
Myosotis
Myosotis (forget-me-nots) is a genus of about 80–100 species of hairy Boraginaceae herbs with blue five-lobed flowers and four nutlets, of Northern Hemisphere origin, radiating in New Zealand where most native species are threatened.
Myrcia
Myrcia is a genus of roughly 800 accepted species of evergreen shrubs and trees in the myrtle family, native from southern Mexico to tropical America, especially Brazil.
Myrciaria
Myrciaria O.Berg is a genus of 47 accepted New World Myrtaceae shrubs and trees, native to tropical America with peak diversity in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, including jaboticaba and camu-camu fruit species.
Myrciaria dubia
Myrciaria dubia, camu-camu, is an Amazonian Myrtaceae shrub or small tree of flooded riverbanks across Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Guyana, and Bolivia, with pulp containing 2.4-3.0 g vitamin C per 100 g; IUCN Least Concern.
Myrica
Myrica (bayberry, wax myrtle) is a cosmopolitan genus of about 50 accepted species of aromatic, actinorhizal shrubs and trees in Myricaceae (Fagales), including bog myrtle, wax myrtles, and Chinese bayberry, with Morella now synonymized under it.
Myricaceae
Myricaceae, the bayberry or sweet gale family, is a small Fagales family of aromatic, resin-dotted shrubs and small trees (Myrica, Comptonia, Morella, Canacomyrica) with waxy drupes and Frankia nitrogen-fixing root nodules.
Myriophyllum
Myriophyllum (watermilfoils), Haloragaceae genus of about 60 aquatic species with feathery whorled leaves; includes invasive Eurasian watermilfoil (M. spicatum) and parrotfeather (M. aquaticum), whose hybrids resist 2,4-D herbicide.
Myriophyllum spicatum
Myriophyllum spicatum, Eurasian watermilfoil or spiked watermilfoil, is a submerged Haloragaceae aquatic herb native to Europe, Asia, and North Africa, invasive across 48 U.S. states, spreading by fragments, hybridizing with M. sibiricum.
Myristica
Myristica (nutmeg genus) is a genus of about 173 dioecious Myristicaceae trees from tropical Asia to the western Pacific; Myristica fragrans of the Banda Islands yields nutmeg and mace.
Myristica fragrans
Myristica fragrans (nutmeg tree), source of the spices nutmeg and mace, native to the Banda Islands, Maluku; a 5–13 m Myristicaceae tree with myristicin-containing seeds, once a Dutch monopoly.
Myristicaceae
Myristicaceae, the nutmeg family, is a pantropical Magnoliales family of about 21 genera and roughly 500 species of trees with red sap and arillate seeds; nutmeg and mace come from Myristica fragrans.
Myrrh
Myrrh (mo yao 沒藥) is the aromatic gum-resin of Commiphora myrrha/molmol trees of Arabia and the Horn of Africa, traded since antiquity as perfume, incense, embalming agent, and medicine, now CITES-listed and EU-monographed.
Myrsine
Myrsine (colicwood; Rapanea) is a pantropical genus of about 200-300 species of dioecious shrubs and trees in Primulaceae, formerly Myrsinaceae, with small punctate flowers, drupaceous fruits, and medicinal species such as M. africana.
Myrtaceae
Myrtaceae, the myrtle family (myrtle family, Myrtaceae Juss.), is a pantropical family of aromatic woody plants with about 140 genera and 5,500 species, including Eucalyptus, Syzygium, Eugenia, Psidium (guava) and Melaleuca, recognized by pellucid-dotted leaves and many stamens.
Myrtales
Myrtales (Juss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl, 1820), also called Epilobiales, is an order of eudicot flowering plants in the malvids with nine families, about 13,000 species, a Gondwanan origin, and major families Myrtaceae and Melastomataceae.
Myrtillocactus geometrizans
Myrtillocactus geometrizans, commonly called garambullo or blue myrtle cactus, is a candelabra-shaped cactus native to Mexico, grown for its edible dark-purple fruit and as a grafting stock.
Myrtus
Myrtus is a small genus of aromatic Myrtaceae shrubs, type species Myrtus communis (common myrtle, arrayán, mirto), native Macaronesia to Pakistan; modern reviews recognize two species, M. communis and Saharan M. nivellei, used in medicine, food, and perfumery.
Myrtus communis
Myrtus communis (common myrtle), an evergreen Myrtaceae shrub native from Macaronesia to Pakistan, used in folk medicine and food; rich in essential oils and polyphenols, IUCN least concern, not yet a regulatory-approved drug.
Nageia
Nageia is a genus of five evergreen podocarp conifers ranging from southern India and Bangladesh through Malesia to southern Japan, unusual among conifers for flat, broad, many-veined leaves.
Nageia nagi
Nageia nagi (Thunb.) Kuntze, the nagi tree or Asian bayberry (竹柏, ナギ), is a broad-leaved podocarp conifer native to southeast China, Taiwan, and Japan, listed Near Threatened globally and Endangered in Taiwan.
Nageia wallichiana
Nageia wallichiana (brown podocarp, Brown's pine; basionym Podocarpus wallichianus) is a tropical podocarp tree of SW India, Assam, Yunnan and Malesia, 10–54 m tall, a timber species, IUCN Least Concern.
Najas
Najas (water-nymph, guppy grass) is a cosmopolitan genus of 30-40 submerged aquatic plants in Hydrocharitaceae, formerly Najadaceae; two subgenera, North American origin, water-pollinated, some species invasive aquarium weeds.
Narcissus (plant)
Narcissus (daffodils, jonquils, paperwhites) is a Mediterranean bulb genus in Amaryllidaceae with 36-54 species, 2n=10-72 chromosomes, 13 horticultural divisions, and over 20,000 registered cultivar names.
Narcissus jonquilla
Narcissus jonquilla, the true jonquil or rush daffodil, is an Iberian bulbous Amaryllidaceae species with rush-like leaves, fragrant golden flowers, 2n=14, parent of Division 7 jonquilla daffodils.
Narcissus pseudonarcissus
Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the daffodil or wild daffodil (Lent Lily), is a bulbous geophyte native to western Europe, described by Linnaeus in 1753, parent of most yellow trumpet cultivars, and poisonous in all parts.
Nardus stricta
Nardus stricta (mat grass, moor matgrass) is a tufted perennial grass of acidic, nutrient-poor European mountain grasslands, first published in 1753. Its bristle-like, silica-rich leaves are avoided by sheep, and its species-rich swards form EU priority habitat 6230.
Narthecium
Narthecium (bog asphodel) is a genus of eight accepted perennial herb species in Nartheciaceae, Dioscoreales, native to Europe, the Caucasus, Japan, and North America, growing in bogs and swamps.
Nasi goreng
Nasi goreng (Malay/Indonesian for 'fried rice') is a Malay Archipelago fried-rice dish of day-old rice with kecap manis, shrimp paste, garlic, and shallot, topped with egg; Indonesia's national dish with 104 documented regional variations, ranked second in CNN's 2011 world foods poll.