Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft is a plant in the Proteaceae family, order Proteales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft (Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft)
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Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft

Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft

Protea scorzonerifolia, the channel-leaf sugarbush, is an endemic South African Protea shrub extinct on the Cape Peninsula.

Family
Genus
Protea
Order
Proteales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft

Protea scorzonerifolia, commonly called the channel-leaf sugarbush, is a flowering shrub that is a member of the Protea genus. This plant is endemic to South Africa, where it grows in the Du Toit's Kloof, Franschhoek, and Groot-Winterhoek mountains. It is now extinct in the Cape Peninsula. In Afrikaans, this species is known as kanaalblaarsuikerbos. Its scientific name is Protea scorzonerifolia (Knight) Rycroft.

Photo: (c) Carina Lochner, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Carina Lochner · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Proteales Proteaceae Protea

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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