Species (both singular and plural)

• Title

  Species (both singular and plural)

• Definition

  A population of plants that freely interbreed with one another and can be diagnosed by similar morphological features and molecular sequences; the basic unit of classification which can be further divided into subspecies, varieties, and forms; a plant's name consists of a generic name and a species epithet which, together, form the species' name.

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