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Orchidaceae
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Orchidaceae is a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants whose members, orchids, produce blooms that are often colorful and fragrant. One of the two largest families of flowering plants, it contains about 28,000 currently accepted species in around 700 genera, representing roughly 6 to 11 percent of all seed plant species, distributed across all continents except Antarctica with the greatest diversity in the tropics; many species are epiphytes living on trees, and most depend on specialized pollination mechanisms and fungal partners for seed germination.
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