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Alexgeorgea
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Alexgeorgea

Alexgeorgea is a genus of three plant species found in Western Australia belonging to the family Restionaceae named in honour of the botanist Alex George in 1976. The flowers of the female and large nut-like fruit are completely underground except for the stigmas, which extend out of the ground as 3 purple or red threads.

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3 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Alexgeorgea nitens

speciesAlexgeorgea nitens

Alexgeorgea subterranea

speciesAlexgeorgea subterranea

Alexgeorgea ganopoda

speciesAlexgeorgea ganopoda

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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 142597.