Bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. In bamboo, the internodal regions of the stem are usually hollow and the vascular bundles in the cross section are scattered throughout the stem instead of in a cylindrical arrangement. The dicotyledonous woody xylem is also absent. The absence of secondary growth wood causes the stems of monocots, including the palms and large bamboos, to be columnar rather tha...

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Species of medium sized ground spider found in the Southern Reaches. Frequent predator of pest animals in the bronze age cities.

The black brush spider originally lived in the forests of the Southern Reaches, preferring a a sheltered environment, not liking the open spaces of the grasslands.

It's lack of fear of commotion and much larger animals caused them to quickly m...

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Melon with two asymmetrical lobes.

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Cinnamon trees are taxon of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. Cinnamon trees have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark.

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A very common tree on Old Earth, enough used in terraforming to give an 'earth-like' feeling to an environment.

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A taxon visiting of right a brightly colored, highly poisonous slugs. All of them live on islands in the Green Droplet archipelago. They live at all levels of the forest from the floor to the canopy. Their bright colors serve as earnings that they are fowl tasting or po...

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The Forest stalker is a large predatory therocat that lives in temperate forest habitats. It is a solitary nocturnal predator, sometimes hunts in pairs.

They hunt at night for smaller animals. It has a streamlined body and head. It's slimmer and shorter than other therocats allowing it to be agile and fast while moving through a forest.

It is an active predator but it is also an opportunist, not above e...

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Freshwater sponges are non-moving organisms that live at the bottom of water bodies. They are invertebrates (have no backbone) and do not have organs, but instead have specialized cells that help them filter water for food.

Freshwater sponges grow on sturdy submerged objects in clean streams, lakes, and rivers. Because they are sensitive to water conditions, their presence indicates high water quality and low l...

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Large slug with pale dappled coloration to resemble the sunlight coming through the trees. It eats decaying plant and animal matter, acting as part of the forest clean up crew.

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Ground spiders are found commonly through out the Spread. They eat insects and small vertebrates. They are often eaten by tribes of the Spread. Sometimes kept as pets by the people of the cities.

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Hellgrammites were created from dobsonfly larva. They no longer go through metamorphosis into a adult dobsonflies. They grow to a meter long and are able to reproduce in their larval forms.

Other modifications necessary to obtain their large size are complete gut, closed circulatory system modeled on that of cephalopods and internal gills that gill pouches have replaced the spiracles, trachea, and gill tufts.

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Caterpillars that typically grow up to a twentyfour inches long and never transform into a butterflies. They become reproductive mature in their larval form and never metamorphisize into butterflies or moths.

They grow much larger an Old Earth caterpillars and have several modifications inspired by other Old Earth invertebrates, that enable their large size. They also do not metamorphosis into butterflies, in...

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Terrestrial coprophagous crustacean.

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Giant terrapin that eats grasses on the Spread.

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Mangroves are shrubs or small trees that grow in coastal saline or brackish water. The term is also used for tropical coastal vegetation consisting of such species. Mangroves occur worldwide in the tropics and subtropics. Mangroves are salt tolerant trees, also called halophytes, and are adapted to life in harsh coastal conditions. They contain a complex salt filtration system and complex root system to cope with...

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The Mantis Mouse is not a true mouse or a mantis. It is a small alpine dwelling rodent created from a rodent base engineered to have several novel characteristics.

The two most obvious characteristics about the the Mantis Mouse are its bipedal stance, standing on two long jumping legs, and its raptorial arms.

Not physically obvious but still unusually is its venom...

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A large bright green slug that is naive to the Green Droplet archipelago. It lives sling the coast line and ventures into the reefs surrounding the island eat algae. It does not have gills but instead stores oxygen in its single lung. It does not swim but creams along the bottom, adhering itself with a thick coating of slime. When it's done feeding it returns to the shelter of the mangrove trees.

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Tiny mites that feed on the epithelial and blood of Marine Slugs. When it enters the water they retreat through the pneumostome into the lung. There they feed on blood and epithelial cells.

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Smaller, pack hunting therocats.

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A bird that almost exclusively hunts Ghost Slugs.

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A small woody shrub with rough, fibrous leaves that was engineered from Old Earth Laurels.

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The Sickle horn is a hooved herbivore that lives in large herds on the Spread. They have split hooves and single horn that sweeps backwards.

They are a keystone species of the Spread.

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Large bipedal carnivores descended from feline stock. Similar in appearance to theropod dinosaurs. Therocats are found in many different environments on Terra 47.

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Large bipedal, mammalian carnivore. Largest of the Therocats. Apex predator of the grasslands.

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The Torch Tree is a medium sized tree with sparse canopy that was engineered from Old Earth Laurels.. The leaves are small and shiny, and the peels from the trunk.

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Result of extinction of all large vertebrate marine life.

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Wire bushes a group of related plants. They have no true leaves and do not posses a single trunk or stem. The wire bush looks more like a large pile of wires than it does a plant. It is composed of a many wire-branches and the grow out of the and tend to loop around each other. The surface area of the wire-branches is where photosynthesis takes place. Though some species have a single or multiple fringe runni...

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