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Leucospermum cuneiforme

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: Leucospermum 

Leucospermum cuneiforme

A female Cape sugarbird (Promerops cafer) with pollen on its forehead, pollinating a Leucospermum cuneiforme flowerhead while probing for nectar in spring in the Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, Cape Town. South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

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Leucospermum cuneiforme, Baviaanskloof, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Leucospermum cuneiforme flowering in spring near Cape Infanta on the Agulhas Plain, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]