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Tritonia laxifolia

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: Tritonia

Tritonia laxifolia Tritonia laxifolia

Tritonia laxifolia flowering in summer next to a stream after good rains on the flats below Gowementsberg in the Kamdeboo Mountains on the Great Escarpment just west of Aberdeen, Eastern Cape, South Africa. [photos Colin Paterson-Jones ©]