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Dilatris
Dilatris is a genus of four species of evergreen perennial herbaceous plants of up to 60 cm (2.0 ft) high, that are assigned to the bloodroot family. The plants have hairless, line- to lance-shaped leaves set in a fan that emerges from a red or orange coloured rootstock. Six free tepals with some gland dots near their tips are present on the mauve or dirty yellow flowers' six free petals. The other two stamens are longer and spreading with smaller scarlet anthers, while the one stamen is short, upright, and has a large, yellow anther. The style is diverted from the centre opposite both longer stamens. The species only occur in the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa.
D. corymbosa is an endemic to the Cape Peninsula, where it occurs from the Twelve Apostles to Cape Point. It has the smallest distribution area of any species in the genus in the wild. D. ixioides has the largest distribution and can be found from the Gifberg, Piketberg and the Kouebokkeveld Mountains in the north to the Hex River and Wemmershoek Mountains in south along the Riviersonderend Mountains all the way east to the Langeberg and the Outeniqua Mountains, and inland onto the southern slopes of the Swartberg. D. pillansii is present from southern Cape Peninsula, via Hottentots Holland and the Kogelberg, along the Kleinrivier Mountains to the hills near Bredasdorp all the way to the Potberg in the east. D. viscosa grows from the Elandskloof Mountains in the north to Hottentots Holland and the Kogelberg in the south and east along the Riviersonderend Mountains. Isolated populations of this species can be found on the Langeberg in the east and on Table Mountain and Constantiaberg in the west. All four species of Dilatris are considered least-concern species.
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