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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X, list of scientific terms with Scottish connections).
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MACRAEA. Bot. A genus of plants from Chile, order Vivianaceae (1828 J. Lindley in Quarterly Jnl. Science XXV. 104). Also applied to Lipochaeta and Phyllanthus.
[After James Macrae (? c.1830), plant collector in South America.]
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