Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Plantae
- - phylum: Tracheophyta
- -- class: Magnoliopsida
- --- order: Asterales
- ---- family: Asteraceae
- ----- species: Platycarpha carlinoides
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Characteristics: | plant with cone-shaped tap root, ring of basal incised leaves, two or three floral whorls with bright purple flowers in the middle, grows in riverbeds of the Kalahari |
Countries: | - BW
- Botswana
- NA
- Namibia
- ZA
- South Africa
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Ecoregions: | - AT1309
- Kalahari xeric savanna
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References: | Van der Walt and le Riche 1999: 106; Van Rooyen et al. 2001: 194 |