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Largest Family: In the New World the tropical montane forest extends in a narrow band down the cordil-lera from Mexico southward on both sides to Ecuador and on the east side of the Andes to Peru and Bolivia. Characteristic families are the laurel family (Lauraceae), myrtle family (Myrtaceae), legume family (Leguminosae), and madder family (Rubiaceae). Podocarp (Podocarpus) is scattered in this type and also in the Old World with other conifers. Evergreen oaks range south in this forest from Mexico to Colombia. One of the world's largest family oaks is Copey oak (Quercus copeyensis) in the Costa
GORILLA, go-ril's, the largest family of all primates and, together with the chimpanzee, the closest living relative of man. The gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) is a member of the ape family (Pongidae), which with the family of man (Hominidae) constitute the superfamily Hominoidea.
The post of shogun was inherited by ;mbers of the Minamoto family until the OOs, when the Ashikaga family took over. his family ruled until the 1600s, when the akugawa family assumed the shogunate. , 1868 the last Tokugawa shogun was reed by a court revolution to hand his >wers back to the emperor. |
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