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Dipogon lignosus

[= Dolichos lignosus, Dolichos gibbosus]

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 > Rosids > Eurosid I > Fabales > Family: Fabaceae > Subfamily: Papilionoideae

Dipogon lignosus

Dipogon lignosus. [photo H.G. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Dipogon lignosus

The climber, Dipogon lignosus; flowering in spring sprawled over shrubs in strandveld on the Cape West Coast, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]

Dipogon lignosus  

Dipogon lignosus flowering on the edge of the forest alongside a stream on the Garden Route, Western Cape, South Africa. [photo Colin Paterson-Jones ©]