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Drimia salteri

[= Urginea salteri]

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: Asparagaceae > Genus: Drimia

Drimia salteri, on sandy bank of Breede River flood plain near Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa. Bulb was pale, soft and squishy, flowers were on a thin flimsy stem about 20-30 cm tall, no leaves were apparent. [image Douglas Euston-Brown ©, from iNaturalist]

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