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Rhodohypoxis baurii

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Asparagales > Family: Hypoxidaceae > Genus: Rhodohypoxis

Rhodohypoxis baurii Rhodohypoxis baurii
Rhodohypoxis baurii

Rhodohypoxis baurii (with Ornithogalum sp. in the top right image) flowering in summer on a wet basalt rock sheet high in the mountains at Naude's Nek in the Eastern Cape Drakensberg, South Africa. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]