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The endemic flowering shrub, the St Helena Ebony, believed to have been extinct for over a century, was discovered on the island in 1981.
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Remarkably high proportion of the species among its flora and fauna, 27 % of the 3, 210 flowering plants and 22 % of the mammals ( see List ), are endemic.
The park also extends to the coast, providing a range of habitats from forest to coastal heathland featuring swamp paperbark and a red flowering gum which is endemic to the region.
Kanaloa kahoolawensis, the Ka palupalu o Kanaloa or kohe malama malama o kanaloa, is a species of flowering plant in the legume family, Fabaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands are home to ten endemic families of flowering plants ; eight are endemic to Madagascar ( Asteropeiaceae, Didymelaceae, Didiereaceae, Kaliphoraceae, Melanophyllaceae, Physenaceae, Sarcolaenaceae, and Sphaerosepalaceae ), one to Seychelles ( Mesdusagynaceae ) and one to the Mascarene Islands ( Psiloxylaceae ).
Kanawao ( Broussaisia arguta ) is a species of perennial flowering plant in the Hydrangea family, Hydrangeaceae, that is endemic to
The Coco de Mer is the most interesting species of the six monospecific endemic palms in Seychelles since it is the " only true case of island gigantism among Seychelles flowering plants, a unique feature of Seychelles vegetation " ( Proctor, 1984 ).
Manfreda maculosa, commonly known as the Texas Tuberose or Spice Lily, is a species of flowering plant related to agaves that is endemic to southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Eight flowering plant families are endemic to Madagascar: Asteropeiaceae, Didymelaceae, Didiereaceae, Kaliphoraceae, Melanophyllaceae, Physenaceae, Sarcolaenaceae, and Sphaerosepalaceae.
Wiliwili ( Erythrina sandwicensis ) is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae that is endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
Iris macrosiphon ( Bowltube Iris ) is a flowering plant in the iris family, endemic to California in the Cascade Range Foothills, north and central Sierra Nevada Foothills, Inner North Coast Ranges, and San Francisco Bay Area, where it occurs in sunny grasslands, meadows, and open woodlands.
The primitive flowering plants Austrobaileya scandens and Idiospermum australiense are also endemic to the Daintree.
Alluaudia is a genus of six species of flowering plants endemic to Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests.
Abutilon menziesii, known as Kooloaula in Hawaiian, is an endangered species of flowering shrub in the mallow family, Malvaceae, that is endemic to Hawaii.
Didiereaceae is a small family of just four genera and 11 species of flowering plants endemic to south and southwest Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests.
Bale Mountains National Park is home to 1, 321 species of flowering plants, 163 of which are endemic to Ethiopia ( 12 %), and 23 to Bale alone ( 14 % of Ethiopia ’ s endemic plants ).
Chimonanthus ( wintersweet ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Calycanthaceae, endemic to China.
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This species is a large, broad-winged hawk of the open, arid grasslands, prairie and shrub steppe country ; it is endemic to the interior parts of North America.
Of particular note are a daisy-flowered shrub Olearia pachyphylla endemic to the district, and the rare large-flowered broom Carmichaelia williamsii.
It grows as either a twining liana, scandent shrub, or small erect shrub, and is one of the few vines that are endemic to the islands.
It is implicated in the die-off of the rare endemic shrub Ione manzanita ( Arctostaphylos myrtifolia ) in California, as well.
Eriostemon banksii is endemic to Cape York Peninsula and is a shrub or small tree occurring in heathland and vinethicket margins ; it is not known in cultivation.
Aride is the only place in the world where the flowering shrub Wright's Gardenia Rothmannia annae is endemic.
The plant is endemic to western Tasmania, where it is a low shrub growing to 1 m tall at high altitudes.
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The Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park is a significant location of Tasmania's endemic species — 40 – 55 % of the park's documented alpine flora is endemic.
Like other cities with endemic problems by the 1960s, East St. Louis suffered racial riots by blacks in the latter part of the decade.
The three were taken to St. John's, where her mother and sister soon died of TB, which was endemic among the First Nations.
The White-beaked dolphin is endemic to the North Atlantic Ocean and is found in a band stretching across the ocean from Cape Cod, the mouth of the St. Lawrence River and southern Greenland in the west, around Iceland in the centre and across in the west from northern France to Svalbard ; however, it is not as well adapted to Arctic conditions as the beluga or narwhal.
A public bath, the bain St-Denis, was built on St-Hubert St. in 1909-1910 but this was not sufficient: typhoid, tuberculosis and smallpox were endemic in the area, leading to a level of infant mortality much higher than in other parts of Montreal.
Also common are pipestem, glade St. Johns-wort, great rhododendron, hobblebush, smooth arrowwood, roughish arrowwood, wild raisin, ninebark, alternate-leaved dogwood, bunchberry, winterberry holly, mountain holly, and the Appalachian endemic longstalked holly, swamp rose and many more.
It is endemic to the alpine regions of Tasmania's southwest and Central Highlands, on the western coast ranges and Lake St. Clair, at an altitude ranging from 910-1220 m.
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