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//Podaxis pistillaris (shown below)// is a fungi that lives in deserts and semi-deserts in Austrailia. It is related to the puffball that is in the United States. This Ghost flower is usually found in the south eastern part of California To the southern part of Nevada and the the western part of Arizona. Their habitat is usually Desert washes and rocky slopes below 2,500 ft.

About one-third of the earth's land area is arid and semiarid in total size, this is almost equal to the areas of North and South America put togather.

Deserts are found in over 60 of the earths nations. There are 30 nations, mostly in the Middle East and Africa, that are 75% deserts.

The world's largest area of drylands is the Sahara Desert, which is 6,000 miles long from North Africa through the Middle East to northwest India.

Deserts are in the tropics and the midlatitudes. Tropical drylands are ussually from 15-35 degrees latitude and go from west coasts into continental areas. Midlatitude Deserts are from 35-55 degrees latitude and are usually in continental areas . North America's Sonaran desert has the alot of diverse plants and animals out of all the desert in the world. Over 3,000 plants, over thousands of invertebrates (1200 different species alone), and more than 550 vertebrate species (fish, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds).

Some desert rodents, like the "Kangaroo rats" that live in a lot North American deserts, never have to drink water they can metabolize all the water they need from the seeds that they eat.

Bees are much more abundant in deserts and savannas, than in wetter climates. The desert regions of nothern Sonora and southern Arizona, have more bee species (between 1,000 and 1,200) than any other area in the world.

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