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Lapeirousia oreogena
Lapeirousia oreogena, known in English as cushion cabong and in Afrikaans as perskussing, is a species of tuberous geophyte in the Iris family, Iridaceae. It is found in a small area between the provinces of Northern Cape and Western Cape in South Africa. Lapeirousia oreogena was first described in 1897 by Rudolf Schlechter and then subsequently published in Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium by Peter Goldblatt in 1972.
The flowers of L. oreogena are pollinated by a single species of fly in the family Nemestrinidae, Prosoeca marinusi, a relationship described as one of the "most specialized systems" of coevolution among related plants. It is recognized by the Red List of South African Plants as being "least concern".
Lapeirousia oreogena has a fairly restricted distribution, on the northern extremity of the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. It is found in clay soils in the Northwestern Cape region of South Africa. Namely the Calvinia District, to the Bokkeveld Plateau and the western Karoo, and Nieuwoudtville.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Lapeirousia oreogena by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
