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Merwilla plumbea

[= Scilla plumbea, Merwilla natalensis]

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: Merwilla

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Merwilla natalensis flowering in early summer in grasslands at Lotheni in the KwaZulu-Natal Cape Drakensberg, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

 

Merwilla natalensis flowering with flies (Muscid and Calliphorid), as well as a variety of beetles, in early summer in grasslands at Lotheni in the KwaZulu-Natal Cape Drakensberg, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]