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Badusa is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Asa Gray in 1860. The genus is native to the Philippines (Palawan), New Guinea, and some islands of the West Pacific (Solomons, Fiji, Santa Cruz, Tonga, Vanuatu, and Palau).

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Centrostegia is a monotypic genus of plants in the family Polygonaceae. Its sole species is Centrostegia thurberi, known by the common names '''Thurber's spineflower and red triangles'''. It is a petite herb with a distinct red coloration native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.

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Petalonyx is a small genus of flowering plants native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. They are known commonly as sandpaper plants, and are most often found in warm, dry desert regions. Sandpaper plants are subshrubs that get their common name from their rough foliage, which is covered in tiny, stiffly curved hairs. They bear racemes of claw-shaped flowers with long stamens extending well beyond the corolla, and unusual in that they emerge from outside the corolla.

Bolandra is a small genus of plants related to the saxifrages. It contains two species known as false coolworts. These are perennials with toothed leaves and inflorescences of curling, sharp-petalled flowers. They are both native to western North America.

Brackenridgea is a flowering plant genus of 11 species in the family Ochnaceae. The genus is named for the British-American botanist William Dunlop Brackenridge.

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Sullivantia, commonly called coolwort, is a genus of flowering plants in the saxifrage family. It is a small genus, comprising only 3-4 species of perennial herbs all native to the northwestern and east-central United States. Sullivantia is most notable for having disjunct distributions primarily restricted to along the Pleistocene glacial margin. All species of Sullivantia are found on moist, often calcareous cliffs.

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Calycosia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It was described by Asa Gray in 1860. The genus is found in New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Samoa, and the Society Islands.

Astronidium is a genus of flowering plants in family Melastomataceae. It includes 68 species which range from Papuasia to the Society Islands.

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Stachydeoma, common name mock pennyroyal, is a genus of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, first described as a genus in 1903. It contains only one known species, Stachydeoma graveolens, endemic to the state of Florida in the United States. It has been found only in the northwestern part of the state, referred to colloquially as the "Panhandle."

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Trichoptilium is a monotypic genus in the daisy family containing the single species Trichoptilium incisum, which is known by the common names yellowdome and yellowhead.

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Horsfordia is a small genus of flowering plants in the mallow family known commonly as velvetmallows. It includes four species which are native to northern Mexico and the southwestern United States. These are hairy subshrubs which bear light pink, lavender, or red-orange flowers.

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Amphipappus is a North American genus in the family Asteraceae. It is native to desert regions of the southwestern United States, in southern California, southern Nevada, Arizona, and southeastern Utah.

Isodendrion is a plant genus in the family Violaceae. It includes four species native to the Hawaiian Islands.

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Suksdorfia is a genus in the family Saxifragaceae. It has only two accepted species, Suksdorfia alchemilloides and Suksdorfia violacea, native to central South America and northwestern North America, respectively. Asa Gray named the genus Suksdorfia after Wilhelm Nikolaus Suksdorf, a mostly self-taught German botanist who came to the United States at age eight and found the species S. violacea in the northwestern United States. S. violacea is the type species for this genus.

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