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Oxytheca
Oxytheca is a genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae. It includes three species native to dry and temperate parts of the western United States and southern South America. The taxonomy of this genus is in flux, with some species listed under tentative new names.
3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

desert saucers
speciesOxytheca perfoliata
Prickly Threadbush
speciesOxytheca dendroidea

watson's oxytheca
speciesOxytheca watsonii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Oxytheca in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72275.