Geissorhiza - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Geissorhiza is a genus

Genus

In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

of about 80 species of flowering plants in the iris

Iridaceae

The Iris family or Iridaceae is a family of perennial, herbaceous and bulbous plants included in the monocot order Asparagales, taking its name from the genus Iris. Almost worldwide in distribution and one of the most important families in horticulture, it includes more than 2000 species...

family which originate from South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

. The genus name is derived from the Greek

Greek language

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...

words geisson, meaning "tile", and rhizon, meaning "root".

Here are some of them:

Geissorhiza aspera
Geissorhiza brehmii
Geissorhiza confusa
Geissorhiza corrugata
Geissorhiza darlingensis
Geissorhiza exscapa
Geissorhiza eurystigma
Geissorhiza geminata
Geissorhiza hesperanthoides
Geissorhiza heterostyla
Geissorhiza imbricata
Geissorhiza inaequalis
Geissorhiza inflexa
Geissorhiza leopoldtii
Geissorhiza mathewsii
Geissorhiza monanthos
Geissorhiza ornithogaloides
Geissorhiza ovata
Geissorhiza purpureolutea
Geissorhiza radians
Geissorhiza schinzii
Geissorhiza splendidissima
Geissorhiza tulbaghensis

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