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Bonnets
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Bonnets

Pterygodium

Pterygodium is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It found primarily in southern Africa (South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland) but one species is endemic to Tanzania.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

True Bonnets

sectionPterygodium

Monkshood Orchids

sectionCorycium

Eye Bonnets

sectionOmmatodium

Big Bonnets

sectionMagnum

Scarf Orchids

sectionAnochilus

Pterygodium ukingense

speciesPterygodium ukingense

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 119354.