Lyman Benson
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LOCATION: Portola Valley, CA, United States
Emeritus Professor of Botany, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 1949–74. Author of The Cacti of the United States and Canada and others.
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Caryophyllales, pink or carnation order of dicotyledonous flowering plants. The order includes 37 families, which contain some 12,000 species in 722 genera. Nearly half of the families are very small, with less than a dozen species each. Caryophyllales is a diverse order that includes trees,…
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