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Wachendorfia paniculata

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Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Commelinales > Family: Haemodoraceae

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Wachendorfia paniculata. Bains Kloof Pass, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Wachendorfia paniculata flowering in spring in the Olifants River valley, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

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A Solitary Bee (Amegilla sp.) working a flower of Wachendorfia paniculata flowering in late spring at Kirstenbosch, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Wachendorfia paniculata flowering with pink daisies, Senecio elegans, after a recent fire on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Wachendorfia paniculata

Wachendorfia paniculata in fruit, Kleinmond, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]