Dilatris ixioides flowering in early summer two seasons after a fire in the Elands Kloof Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Dilatris ixioides, Algeria, Cedarberg, South Africa. [photo John E. Burrows ©]

A Monkey Beetle, Pachycnema crassipes, on the Cape Peninsula mountains' endemic, Dilatris corymbosa, in early summer, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]