• The flora of the Dominican Republic is diverse. Abarema abbottii Abatia angeliana Acalypha hispida Acrocomia aculeata - Acrocomia Acrocomia sclerocarpa...
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    Jatropha integerrima (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    commonly known as peregrina or spicy jatropha, is a species of flowering plant in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, that is native to Cuba and Hispaniola...
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    The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Dominican Republic: Dominican Republic – sovereign state occupying the eastern...
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    settlement La Isabela (1493–1500), and the first permanent settlement, the current capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo (est. 1498). These settlements...
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  • List of the National parks of the Dominican Republic, located on and near the island of Hispaniola, in the Caribbean region. The Dominican national park...
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    Croton eluteria (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    is a plant species of the genus Croton that is native to the Caribbean. It has been naturalized in other tropical regions of the Americas. It grows to...
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    Costus spicatus (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    to treat sexually transmitted infections. In Dominican folk medicine, an herbal tea made from the leaves of C. spicatus is used for diabetes (hyperglycemia)...
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  • Cyperus imbricatus (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    imbricatus, also known as the shingle flatsedge, is a species of sedge that is native to sub-tropical and tropical areas of the world. The sedge is a rhizomatous...
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    Tabebuia pallida (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    pallida is a species of Tabebuia native to the Caribbean. Hills, R. (24 July 2020). "Tabebuia pallida (White Cedar)". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species...
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  • Cyperus confertus (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    confertus, also called the West Indian flatsedge is a species of sedge that is native to northern parts of South America. List of Cyperus species Integrated...
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    Specklinia tribuloides (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    of orchid plant native to Central America. "Specklinia tribuloides (Sw.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the...
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    Croton ciliatoglandulifer (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    Croton ciliatoglandulifer, known as the bush croton or Mexican croton, is a plant species of the genus Croton. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve...
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  • Cyperus sphacelatus (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    a species of sedge that is native to parts of Africa and Central America and South America. The species was first formally described by the botanist Christen...
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    Calopogonium mucunoides (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to the New World Tropics, and introduced as a forage crop and a green manure to the tropics of Africa...
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    Cyperus ligularis (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    species of sedge that is native to southern parts of North America, Central America and northern parts of South America as well as along the east coast of Africa...
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    Pleurothallis pruinosa (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    species of orchid plant native to Central and South America. "Pleurothallis pruinosa Lindl. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World...
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    Hymenaea courbaril (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    than that of the cherry tree. However, it is not a member of Prunus but instead a legume of the family Fabaceae. In the regions to which the tree is indigenous...
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    Cuba, Flora is the wettest known tropical cyclone for Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. The significant casualties caused by Flora were the most...
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    Phyla dulcis (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    dulcis (syn. Lippia dulcis) is a species of perennial herbaceous plant that is native to southern Mexico, the Caribbean (Cuba, Hispaniola, and Puerto Rico)...
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    Carex polysticha (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    tussock-forming species of perennial sedge in the family Cyperaceae. It is native to parts of Central America and South America. List of Carex species "Carex...
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  • Cyperus tenuis (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    RLTS.T136640847A136640883.en. Retrieved 10 December 2022. "Cyperus tenuis Sw". Kew Science – Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 21 June 2022. v t e...
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    Morisonia hastata (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    hastata is a species of flowering plant in the caper family, Capparaceae. It is a tree native to the tropical Americas, including the Caribbean, Venezuela...
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    Rhynchospora berteroi (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    known by the common name of little beaksedge, is a member of the sedge family, Cyperaceae. It is a perennial herb, native to wetlands in the Caribbean...
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  • Cyperus ferax (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    of sedge that is endemic to an area of the Americas. The species was first formally described by the botanist Louis Claude Richard in 1792. List of Cyperus...
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    Port-de-Plate) is a major coastal city in the Dominican Republic, and capital of the province of Puerto Plata. The city is a major trading port. Puerto Plata...
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    Nymphaea glandulifera (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    species of waterlily native to tropical America. Nymphaea glandulifera produces ovoid tubers, which do not produce stolons. The petiole has two sets of air...
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    Zamia pumila (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    currently known to exist on central Cuba, southern Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic on Hispaniola; populations formerly also occurred in Haiti, but...
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    Canna jaegeriana (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    5 mm). It occurs in the Greater Antilles (Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico) and tropical South America, north and west of the Amazon Basin (Venezuela...
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    Guazuma ulmifolia (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Grenada, Guadeloupe,...
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  • Cyperus floridanus (category Flora of the Dominican Republic)
    Cyperus floridanus is a species of sedge that is native to southern parts of North America and the Caribbean. List of Cyperus species "Cyperus floridanus...
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