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Orphium frutescens (Sea-Rose, Teringbos)

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 > Asterids > Euasterid I > Order: Gentianales > Family: Gentianaceae

Orphium frutescens growing among rocks near the sea, Kleinmond Nature Reserve (Western Cape, South Africa).

This is the only species in the genus Orphium.