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Leucadendron levisanus (Cape Flats conebush)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Order: Proteales > Family: Proteaceae > Genus: Leucadendron

Leucadendron levisanus (Cape Flats conebush)

A Muscid fly on a male flower of the critically rare Leucadendron levisanus flowering in early summer in cultivation at Kirstenbosch, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Leucadendron levisanus (Cape Flats conebush) Leucadendron levisanus (Cape Flats conebush)

Leucadendron levisanus. male (left) and female (right). N1/N7 interchange north of Cape Town, Western Cape. Red Data species - Endangered. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]