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Deschampsia antarctica

Wildlife on Antarctica’s peninsula on grass.

Deschampsia antarctica is one of the grass species found on Antarctica’s peninsula. There are far more plant species on the Antarctic peninsula than the mainland, with the larger number of species at the peninsula’s northern end.

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