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Series (botany)
Taxonomic rank in botany / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In botany and plant taxonomy, a series is a subdivision of a genus, a taxonomic rank below that of section (and subsection) but above that of species.[1]
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Sections and/or series are typically used to help organize very large genera, which may have hundreds of species.