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    Lapeirousia is a genus in the plant family Iridaceae. It is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa, about a third of the species occurring in fynbos. The genus...
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  • Thumbnail for Lapeirousia oreogena
    Lapeirousia oreogena, known in English as cushion cabong and in Afrikaans as perskussing, is a species of tuberous geophyte in the Iris family, Iridaceae...
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    Lapeirousia anceps, also known as long kabong, is a species of geophyte in the genus Lapeirousia. It is native in the Cape provinces in South Africa. The...
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  • Lapeirousia tenuis is a species of geophyte in the genus Lapeirousia. It is endemic to northwest Cape Provinces in South Africa. The height of the flower...
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    the species to Anomatheca laxa in 1971; Nicholas Brown changed it to Lapeirousia laxa in 1928; Goldblatt with his colleague John Charles Manning settled...
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  • Thumbnail for Lapeirousia pyramidalis
    Lapeirousia pyramidalis is a species of geophyte in the genus Lapeirousia. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. It is also known as the...
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    Lapeirousia arenicola is a species of flowering plant in the genus Lapeirousia. It is endemic to the Northern Cape and Western Cape of South Africa. Lapeirousia...
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  • Thumbnail for Lapeirousia jacquinii
    Lapeirousia jacquinii is a species of flowering plant in the genus Lapeirousia. It is endemic to the Northern Cape and Western Cape of South Africa. Lapeirousia...
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  • Guthrie, endemic Genus Lapeirousia: Lapeirousia anceps (L.f.) Ker Gawl. endemic Lapeirousia arenicola Schltr. endemic Lapeirousia azurea (Eckl. ex Baker)...
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     euryphylla Binomial name Savannosiphon euryphylla (Harms) Goldblatt & Marais Synonyms Acidanthera euryphylla (Harms) Diels Lapeirousia euryphylla Harms...
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    of tough, reticulated fibre. Other species, such as many in the genus Lapeirousia, have tunics of hard, woody layers. Internally, a typical corm mostly...
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    branched. Gladiolus has a bi-lobed style branch (bilobate). Freesia, Lapeirousia, Romulea, Savannosiphon and Watsonia have bifurcated (two branched) and...
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    John C.; Bernhardt, Peter (1995). "Pollination biology of Lapeirousia subgenus Lapeirousia (Iridaceae) in southern Africa; floral divergence and adaptation...
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    themselves are mainly used in wedding bouquets. Freesia laxa (formerly called Lapeirousia laxa or Anomatheca cruenta) is one of the other species of the genus...
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    Dierama, Duthiastrum, Freesia, Geissorhiza, Gladiolus, Hesperantha, Ixia, Lapeirousia, Melasphaerula, Micranthus, Pillansia, Romulea, Sparaxis, Savannosiphon...
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    of the genus Gladiolus have a bilobed style. In the genera Freesia, Lapeirousia, Romulea, Savannosiphon, and Watsonia, the style has bifurcated and curved...
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    often with spectacularly long proboscises adapted to plants such as Lapeirousia species with very long, narrow floral tubes. Unlike butterflies, bee...
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    leaves of the family Iridaceae, but sometimes, like in Lapeirousia pyramidalis or Lapeirousia divaricata, they have different morphologies. The rootstock...
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    that show up above ground. Some species of cormous plants, such as some Lapeirousia, also produce cataphylls that act solely as tunic leaves for the corm...
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  • Thumbnail for Moegistorhynchus longirostris
    pollinates, partly or exclusively, at least 20 species of Iridaceae (such as Lapeirousia anceps), Geraniaceae, and Orchidaceae. Barraclough, David; Slotow, Rob...
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    Sciences.[citation needed] In 1800 he was mayor of Toulouse. The genus Lapeirousia in the family Iridaceae was named after him by his friend Pierre André...
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    Antithrixia DC. Comborhiza Anderb. & K.Bremer Eclopes Banks ex Gaertn. Lapeirousia Thunb., nom. illeg. Oederia DC., orth. var. Oreoleysera K.Bremer Osmites...
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  • O. calycina Binomial name Oedera calycina (L.f.) N.G.Bergh Synonyms Lapeirousia calycina (L.f.) Thunb. Osmites calycina L.f. Peyrousea calycina (L.f...
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    pollinating fynbos and Karoo plants with narrow, deep corolla tubes, such as Lapeirousia species. Part of the adaptation takes the form of remarkably long probosces...
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    was not included in the analysis, but is presumed closely related to Lapeirousia), and between 86 of the species of Babiana (B. brachystachys, B. foliosa...
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    Kurtinia Karacabey-Oztemuer 1980 † Lapeirousella Milovanović 1938 † Lapeirousia Bayle 1878 † Laskarevia Milovanović 1984 † Macgillavryia Rojas et al...
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  • abyssinica, synonym of Lippia abyssinica, a plant in the family Verbenaceae Lapeirousia abyssinica [ceb; sv; vi; war; wikidata], a plant in the family Iridaceae...
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    to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Lapeirousia List of botanists by author abbreviation Philippe-Isidore Picot de Lapeyrouse...
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    divaricata Gladiolus cunonius Gladiolus griseus Gladiolus undulatus Lapeirousia anceps Melasphaerula ramosa Micranthus junceus Moraea flaccida Moraea...
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    Gladiolus. Tribe Tritoniopsideae Tritoniopsis Tribe Watsonieae Cyanixia Lapeirousia Micranthus Pillansia Savannosiphon Thereianthus Watsonia Zygotritonia...
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