Plumaria Plumose
Plumaria may refer to: * a synonym for ''Eriophorum'', a plant genus * ''Plumaria'' (alga), a red algae genus in the family Wrangeliaceae * The pre-Hispanic artistic practice of using feathers in artwork, particularly headdresses in Latin America, most prominently Mexico (see Mexican featherwork Mexican featherwork, also called "plumería", was an important artistic and decorative technique in the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods in what is now Mexico. Although feathers have been prized and feather works created in other parts of the wor ...

Eriophorum
''Eriophorum'' (cottongrass, cotton-grass or cottonsedge) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family. They are found throughout the arctic, subarctic, and temperate portions of the Northern Hemisphere in acid bog habitats, being particularly abundant in Arctic tundra regions.Flora Europaea''Eriophorum''/ref> They are herbaceous perennial plants with slender, grass-like leaves. The seed heads are covered in a fluffy mass of cotton-like fibers which are carried on the wind to aid dispersal. The cotton grass also maintains a height of 12 inches and around 2 inches in water. In cold Arctic regions, these masses of translucent fibres also serve as 'down' – increasing the temperature of the reproductive organs during the Arctic summer by trapping solar radiation. Paper and the wicks of candles have been made of its fiber, and pillows stuffed with the same material. The leaves were formerly used in treating diarrhea, and the spongy pith of the stem ...
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Plumaria (alga)
Plumaria may refer to: * a synonym for ''Eriophorum'', a plant genus * ''Plumaria'' (alga), a red algae genus in the family Wrangeliaceae * The pre-Hispanic artistic practice of using feathers in artwork, particularly headdresses in Latin America, most prominently Mexico (see Mexican featherwork Mexican featherwork, also called "plumería", was an important artistic and decorative technique in the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods in what is now Mexico. Although feathers have been prized and feather works created in other parts of the wor ...

Wrangeliaceae
Wrangeliaceae is a red alga family in the order Ceramiales. It was published by J.Agardh in 1851 (originally as 'Wrangelieae') in his book ''Species, genera et ordines algarum : seu descriptiones succinctae specierum''. Genera As accepted by Algaebase; (with approx. no of species per genera) *Subfamilia Compsothamnioideae De Toni (21) *Tribus '' Compsothamnieae'' F.Schmitz & Hauptfleisch (17) **'' Antarcticothamnion'' R.L.Moe & P.C.Silva (1) **'' Compsothamnion'' (Nägeli) F.Schmitz (4) **'' Dasythamniella'' P.C.Silva (5) **'' Gymnophycus'' Huisman & Kraft (3) **'' Mortensenia'' Weber Bosse (1) **'' Rhododictyon'' W.R.Taylor (1) **'' Scagelonema'' R.E.Norris & M.J.Wynne (1) **'' Spencerella'' Darbishire (1) **'' Lasiothalieae'' H.B.S.Womersley (1) ***'' Lasiothalia'' Harvey (1) **'' Radiathamnieae'' Gordon-Mills & Kraft (3) ***'' Laurenciophila'' Stegenga (1) ***'' Ochmapexus'' Womersley (1) *Subfamilia Spongoclonioideae De Toni (42) **'' Spongoclonieae'' F.Schmitz & Haupt ...
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Pre-Columbian Era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era spans from the Migration to the New World, original settlement of North and South America in the Upper Paleolithic period through European colonization of the Americas, European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans. This may have occurred decades or even centuries after Columbus for certain cultures. Many pre-Columbian civilizations were marked by permanent settlements, cities, agriculture, civic and monumental architecture, major earthworks (archaeology), earthworks, and Complex society, complex societal hierarchies. Some of these civilizations had long faded by the time of the first permanent European colonies (c. late 16th–early 17th centuries), and are known only through archaeology of the Americas, archaeological investigations and oral history. Other civi ...
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