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Genus: Aulax (featherbushes)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Order: Proteales >  Family: Proteaceae

There are three species, all found in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Species indigenous to southern Africa

List from Rourke (2003).

  Male Female

Aulax cancellata

   

Aulax pallasia

   

Aulax umbellata

Publications

  • Rourke, J.P. 2003. Proteaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 795-809. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria. 

 


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