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Steganotaenia araliacea (Carrot tree)

[= Peucedanum araliaceum, Peucedanum fraxinifolium]

Geelwortelboom [Afrikaans]

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Asterids > Euasterid II > Order: Apiales > Family: Apiaceae > Genus: Steganotaenia

One of two species in the genus and the only species of this genus in southern Africa. 

See Transvaal Lowveld and escarpment wild flowers by Jo Onderstall p. 144.