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Large family of Australian and South African shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and clustered mostly tetramerous flowers
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proteaceae
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The Proteaceae are a family of flowering plants predominantly distributed in the Southern Hemisphere . The family comprises 83 genera with about 1,660 known species . Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae , they make up the order Proteales . Well-known ...
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It will suffice to quote the highest authority, Robert Brown, who in speaking of certain organs in the Proteaceae, says their generic importance, `like that of all their parts, not only in this but, as I apprehend, in every natural family, is very unequal, and in some cases seems to be entirely lost.