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Alectra
Alectra Incorporated, through its subsidiary Alectra Utilities Corporation, is an electricity utility and distributor that serves several municipalities in the Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario. It is a municipally-owned corporation with shares in varying amounts held by the municipalities which owned its predecessor companies.
When it was founded, Alectra was described as the second largest municipally owned electricity utility in North America after the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. As of January 2019 it is the largest municipally owned electricity utility in Canada, by number of customers served.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Yellow Paintflower
speciesAlectra sessiliflora
Tobacco Paintflower
speciesAlectra orobanchoides
Cape Paintflower
speciesAlectra capensis
Fynbos Paintflower
speciesAlectra lurida
Alectra picta
speciesAlectra picta
Alectra avensis
speciesAlectra avensis
Alectra basutica
speciesAlectra basutica
Alectra parasitica
speciesAlectra parasitica
Cowpea witchweed
speciesAlectra vogelii
Alectra pumila
speciesAlectra pumila
Alectra aurantiaca
speciesAlectra aurantiaca
Alectra bainesii
speciesAlectra bainesii
Alectra dunensis
speciesAlectra dunensis
Alectra lancifolia
speciesAlectra lancifolia
Alectra natalensis
speciesAlectra natalensis
Alectra pseudobarleriae
speciesAlectra pseudobarleriae
Alectra schoenfelderi
speciesAlectra schoenfelderi
Alectra thyrsoidea
speciesAlectra thyrsoidea
Alectra rigida
speciesAlectra rigida
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 272852.