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Zygophyllum spinosum

[= Zygophyllum procumbens]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Rosids > Eurosid I > Order: Zygophyllales > Family: Zygophyllaceae > Genus: Zygophyllum

Zygophyllum spinosum

Zygophyllum spinosum flowering in winter in the southern Table Mountain National Park on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Zygophyllum spinosum Zygophyllum spinosum

Zygophyllum spinosum flowering in spring in the southern Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Zygophyllum spinosum. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]