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Lapeirousia oreogena
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Lapeirousia oreogena, known in English as cushion cabong and in Afrikaans as perskussing, is a species of tuberous geophyte in the Iris family, Iridaceae. It is found in a small area between the provinces of Northern Cape and Western Cape in South Africa. Lapeirousia oreogena was first described in 1897 by Rudolf Schlechter and then subsequently published in Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium by Peter Goldblatt in 1972.
- Family
- Iridaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Lapeirousia oreogena
- Slug
- lapeirousia-oreogena
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Genus
- Lapeirousia
- Species
- oreogena
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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