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Dierama latifolium

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: Iridaceae > Genus: Dierama

Dierama latifolium, Table Mountain, east of Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Note the yellow and black meloid beetle - these beetles eat flower petals. [image Karen Zunckel ©, from iNaturalist]

Dierama latifolium, Wartrail cutting on R 393 Moshesh's Ford, Lesotho. [image Lucien Theron ©, from iNaturalist]

Dierama latifolium (unusual wine red colour form), Qacha’s Nek, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. [images Judd Kirkel ©, from iNaturalist]