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Nerine gracilis

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Amaryllidaceae > Genus: Nerine

Nerine gracilis, Devon, Gauteng, South Africa. [images Georg Fritz ©, from iNaturalist]

 

According to Georg Fritz (iNaturalist), "Nerine gracilis is a Red Data species growing in shallow black, rather soggy clay soil, around sheets of exposed dolerite in vleis and natural depressions in grassland." Occurs in grasslands of Northern Free State, North West, Gauteng and Mpumalanga. Threatened by crop cultivation, overgrazing and urban development (Victor & Raimondo, 2007)

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