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Patersonia borneensis is a species of plant in the iris family Iridaceae and is endemic to a restricted area of Borneo. It is a tufted perennial with many leaves and pale lavender to bluish-purple tepals on a flowering stem shorter than the leaves.
This patersonia is restricted to the Mount Kinabalu massif in Sabah, Malaysia where it grows at altitudes between 2,200 and 2,750 m (7,220 and 9,020 ft).
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Patersonia borneensis 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.
