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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

torreya
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It means dedicated to John Torrey an American botanist. It is the name of a botanical genus of coniferous plants in the family Cephalotaxaceae ( or Taxaceae ).

  




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

Genus of coniferous plants in the family cephalotaxaceae originating in East Asia and North America. The name is due to John Torrey, American botanist of the XIX, who studied them.

  



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