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Microbiota

Conservation status
Data deficient
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Pinophyta
Class:Pinopsida
Order:Pinales
Family:Cupressaceae
Genus:Microbiota
Species:M. decussata
Binomial name
Microbiota decussata
Kom.


Microbiota is a genus of evergreen coniferous shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Microbiota decussata. It is native to a limited area of the Sikhote-Alin mountains in Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. It was discovered in 1923 but political secrecy in the former Soviet Union prevented any knowledge of its existence outside the Soviet Union for about 50 years. It has never acquired a common English name, though Siberian Cypress has been proposed.

Although generally accepted as being a distinct genus, it has been suggested that Microbiota could be included in the closely related genus Platycladus, but this is not widely followed. Other fairly close relatives are the genera Juniperus and Cupressus.

It is a small, low-growing shrub growing to 20-50 cm tall and 2-5 m spread. The foliage forms in flat sprays with scale-like leaves 2-4 mm long. The cones are among the smallest of any conifer, 2-3 mm long, green ripening brown in about 8 months from pollination, and have 4 scales arranged in two opposite pairs. The seeds are 2 mm long, with no wing; there is usually only one seed in each cone, rarely two.





Uses

Microbiota is grown as an ornamental plant for ground cover, valued for its considerable winter cold tolerance.

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conservation status of a species is an indicator of the likelihood of that species continuing to survive either in the present day or the future. Many factors are taken into account when assessing the conservation status of a species: not simply the number remaining, but the
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Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]

Divisions

Green algae
  • Chlorophyta
  • Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
  • Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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Pinophyta

Class: Pinopsida

Orders & Families

Cordaitales †
Pinales
  Pinaceae - Pine family
  Araucariaceae - Araucaria family
  Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family
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Pinophyta

Class: Pinopsida

Orders & Families

Cordaitales †
Pinales
  Pinaceae - Pine family
  Araucariaceae - Araucaria family
  Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family
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Pinales

Families

Pinaceae, pine family
Araucariaceae, araucaria family
Podocarpaceae, yellow-wood family
Sciadopityaceae, umbrella-pine family
Cupressaceae, cypress family
Cephalotaxaceae, plum-yew family
Taxaceae, yew family
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Cupressaceae
Richard ex Bartling

Genera

Actinostrobus - Cypress-pine
Athrotaxis - Tasmanian Cedar Austrocedrus
Callitris - Cypress-pine
Callitropsis - Cypress * (Cupressus)
Calocedrus
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov (Russian: Влади́мир Лео́нтьевич Комаро́в
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genus (plural: genera) is part of the Latinized name for an organism. It is a name which reflects the classification of the organism by grouping it with other closely similar organisms.
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evergreen plant is a plant that has leaves all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose all their foliage for part of the year.

Leaf persistence in evergreen plants may vary from only a few months (with new leaves constantly being grown and old
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Pinophyta

Class: Pinopsida

Orders & Families

Cordaitales †
Pinales
  Pinaceae - Pine family
  Araucariaceae - Araucaria family
  Podocarpaceae - Yellow-wood family
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A shrub or bush is a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m (15-20 ft) tall.
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Cupressaceae
Richard ex Bartling

Genera

Actinostrobus - Cypress-pine
Athrotaxis - Tasmanian Cedar Austrocedrus
Callitris - Cypress-pine
Callitropsis - Cypress * (Cupressus)
Calocedrus
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State Party Russian Federation
Type Natural
Criteria x
Reference 766
Region Europe and North America

Inscription History
Inscription 2001  (25th Session)
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Приморский кра?
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Anthem
Hymn of the Russian Federation


Capital
(and largest city) Moscow

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19th century - 20th century - 21st century
1890s  1900s  1910s  - 1920s -  1930s  1940s  1950s
1920 1921 1922 - 1923 - 1924 1925 1926

Year 1923 (MCMXXIII
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (abbreviated USSR, Russian: (help info ) ; tr.
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P. orientalis

Binomial name
Platycladus orientalis
(L.) Franco

Platycladus is a distinct genus of evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species,
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Juniperus
L.

Species
See text

Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.
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Cupressus
L.

Species
See text

The genus Cupressus is one of several genera within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress (disambiguation).
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leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat (laminar) and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast (chlorenchyma tissue, a type of parenchyma) to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate
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cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures. The familiar woody cone is the female cone, which produces seeds.
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For other meanings of seed, see seed (disambiguation).


SEED

General
KISA
1998

Cipher detail
Key size(s):| 128 bits

Block size(s):| 128 bits
Nested Feistel network
16

SEED
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An ornamental plant is a plant that is grown for its ornamental qualities, rather than for its commercial or other value. The term is often abbreviated to ornamental (usually as a noun) when used in horticultural contexts.
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