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Elegia stipularis

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: Restionaceae > Genus: Elegia

Elegia stipularis

A stand of the restio, Elegia stipularis, flowering in winter with some Euryops abrotanifolius and Leucadendron salignum in flower in fynbos on Slangkop with the Hout Bay mountains beyond, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

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Elegia stipularis flowering in cultivation at Kirstenbosch in spring, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Elegia stipularis flowering in spring with Leucadendron xanthoconus in fynbos in the Cape of Good Hope section of the Table Mountain National Park, Cape Peninsula, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]