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Arabis kennedyae, the Troodos rockcress, is a species of flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae. It is endemic to Cyprus. Its natural habitat is Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation. It is threatened by habitat loss.

Scilla morrisii, commonly known as the Morris squill or pallid squill, is a critically endangered species of plant in the family Asparagaceae. It is endemic to Mediterranean-type shrubby vegetation on the island of Cyprus.

Calendula maritima, known as the sea marigold and trailing calendula, is a very rare species from the family of Asteraceae. Some scientists regarded it as Calendula suffruticosa subspecies maritima. This halophytic plant is endemic to the western part of Sicily in small coastal habitats, and is a critically endangered species. As of 2012, this plant could still be found in only five small sites in East Sicily. The Province of Trapani has chosen the plant as its official symbol. The sea marigold occurs only on the Sicilian coast: on the island mainland between Marsala and the Monte Cofano; and

Prunus arabica is a species of wild almond found across the Middle East. It is a broomlike shrub typically 0.75 to 2 m tall, with brown bark. Its leaves have a 5-8 mm petiole and the leaf blades are 15 to 44 mm long and 3 to 10 mm wide. Its inflorescences have dark red hypanthia and sepals (green on the interior of the sepals), and white, pale pink or pink petals. The flowers are borne on a pedicel about 3 mm long, which lengthens to 6 mm when the fruit is fully developed. It prefers to grow in arid or semiarid areas at 500 to 2700 m above sea level. A full genetic and morphological analysis

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Prunus kotschyi is a plant first described by Pierre Edmond Boissier and Rudolph Friedrich Hohenacker, and received its current name from a revision by Robert Desmond Meikle. No subspecies are known. It is native to Iraq.

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Silene fraudatrix is a species of flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae. It is sometimes referred to by the common name Alevkaya Sinekkapani. It has a restricted distribution and is endemic to Northern Cyprus, where it is known only from Alevkaya where it is common to Tatlisu.

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Prunus carduchorum (Persian: چغالک) is a rare species of wild almond native to Turkey, Iraq and Iran, near where the three countries meet. It is a subspinescent shrub 0.5-1.2 m tall. A native of the Eastern Anatolian montane steppe ecoregion, it prefers to grow at 1500 to 3000 m above sea level on marl slopes, in degraded oak forests. Genetically it groups with other scrubby almonds from the region. Based on morphology it was thought to yield Prunus × pabotii when crossed with Prunus haussknechtii.

Anthemis plutonia, the Troödos chamomile, is a species of pilose perennial herb in the sunflower family, Asteraceae found only in Cyprus. It often forms intricate mats with prostrate stems 5–20 cm long. Small bipinnatisect leaves. Capitula 15–20 mm in diameter, with pink rarely creamy-white tubular florets. Suborbicular ray-florets white, rarely pink.

Taraxacum aphrogenes, the Paphos dandelion, is a perennial, lactiferous, rosulate, hairless herb, up to 12 cm high. Leaves all in rosette, simple, divided almost to midrib, into unequal, bluntish, suborbicular lobes, fleshy, oblong, 3–8 x 0.3–2 cm. Flowers in capitula, with yellow, ligulate florets. Flowers October–December in advance of the leaves. Fruit a pappose achene.

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Micromeria chionistrae is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is a suberect to sprawling hairy-glandular subshrub up to 30 cm high with pink-purple flowers, that emerge June–November.

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