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Tribolium tenellum

[= Karroochloa tennella]

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

Tribolium tenellum

The red annual grass, Karroochloa tenella, flowering after exceptional winter rain on the gravel plains in the Tanqua Karoo with the Rogeveld Escarpment beyond, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]