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Lysiloma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Fabaceae. [ 1 ] The genus is native to the Americas, and species range from Arizona and New Mexico through Mexico and Central America to Costa Rica , and in Florida , Cuba , Hispaniola , the Bahamas , and Turks and Caicos Islands .
Lysiloma divaricatum is a flowering tree native to Mexico and Central America. Common names include mauto, quitaz , and tepemesquite in Mexico, quebracho in Costa Rica, Honduras, Mexico, and Nicaragua, and quebracho negro, tepemisque , and yaje in El Salvador.
The following list provides the 704 species of common trees and shrubs of flora of Sri Lanka under 95 families. The list is according to A Field Guide to the Common Trees and Shrubs of Sri Lanka, by Mark Ashton, Savitri Gunatilleke, Neela de Zoysa, M.D. Dassanayake, Nimal Gunatilleke and Siril Wijesundera. [1]
It is the government department responsible for maintaining national parks, nature reserves and wildlife in wilderness areas in Sri Lanka. [3] Forest reserves and wilderness areas are maintained by the Department of Forest Conservation. [4] The head of the department is the Director General of Wildlife Conservation, formally known as Warden.
Ministry of Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation; වනජීවී හා වන සම්සත් සංරක්ෂණ අමාත්යාංශය
The Sri Lanka lowland rain forests represents Sri Lanka's Tropical rainforests below 1,000 m (3,281 ft) in elevation in the southwestern part of the island. The year-around warm, wet climate together with thousands years of isolation from mainland India have resulted in the evolution of numerous plants and animal species that can only be found ...
Sri Lankan environmentalist, Dr. Gothamie Weerakoon has discovered 51 new varieties of lichens endemic to Sri Lanka, of which 8 were found in the Knuckles Mountain Range. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] While Dr. Udeni Jayalal et al. found 2 new lichens from the Horton Plains in 2012, Anzia mahaeliyensis and Anzia flavotenuis . [ 27 ]
The Sonoran Desert. The Sonoran Desert is a North American desert and ecoregion which covers large parts of the southwestern United States and of northwestern Mexico. With an area of 260,000 square kilometers (100,000 sq mi), it is the hottest desert in Mexico.