Apteria
Genus of flowering plants
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Apteria is a genus of flowering plants in the Burmanniaceae, first described as a genus in 1834. It contains only one known species, Apteria aphylla, the nodding-nixie, native to the southern United States (E Texas to S Georgia and Florida[2]), Mexico, Central America, the West Indies, and South America.[1][3][4][5][6][7]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Dioscoreales |
| Family: | Burmanniaceae |
| Genus: | Apteria Urb. |
| Species: | A. aphylla |
| Binomial name | |
| Apteria aphylla (Nutt.) Barnhart ex Small | |
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