Lyonia
Encyclopedia
Lyonia is a genus
name in biology
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Lyonia may also refer to the electronic, interdisciplinary academic journal published by the Lyon Arboretum
of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
name in biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
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- In animalAnimalAnimals are a major group of multicellular, eukaryotic organisms of the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. Their body plan eventually becomes fixed as they develop, although some undergo a process of metamorphosis later on in their life. Most animals are motile, meaning they can move spontaneously and...
s - †Lyonia (brachiopod) Archbold, 1983 (Brachiopoda: StrophomenidaStrophomenidaStrophomenida is a large, extinct order of articulate brachiopods that existed from the lower Ordovician to the lower Jurassic period. It was the largest known order of brachiopods, encompassing over 400 genera, including the largest and heaviest of known brachiopod shells...
) - In plantPlantPlants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as trees, flowers, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. The group is also called green plants or...
s - Lyonia (Ericaceae)Lyonia (Ericaceae)Lyonia is a genus of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae.Species include:*Lyonia elliptica*Lyonia jamaicensis*Lyonia ligustrina*Lyonia maestrensis*Lyonia octandra*Lyonia truncata...
(Magnoliophyta: EricaceaeEricaceaeThe Ericaceae, commonly known as the heath or heather family, is a group of mostly calcifuge flowering plants. The family is large, with roughly 4000 species spread across 126 genera, making it the 14th most speciose family of flowering plants...
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Lyonia may also refer to the electronic, interdisciplinary academic journal published by the Lyon Arboretum
Lyon Arboretum
The Harold L. Lyon Arboretum is a arboretum and botanical garden managed by the University of Hawaii at Mānoa located at the upper end of Mānoa Valley in Hawaii....
of the University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
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- Lyonia (journal)Lyonia (journal)Lyonia was an electronic, peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scientific journal published by the Harold L. Lyon Arboretum and stored in the ScholarSpace digital institutional repository of the University of Hawaii at Manoa library. The journal was dedicated to the distribution of original ecological...