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Genus: Ferraria

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

Total of 11 species, found from southern Africa through to south tropical Africa, with most species found along the west coast of South Africa (Western and Northern Cape), mainly in sandy soils.

Publications

  • de Vos, M.P. 1979. The African genus Ferraria. Journal of South African Botany 45: 295-375.

 

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