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Olsynium
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Olsynium is a genus of summer-dormant rhizomatous perennial flowering plants in the iris family Iridaceae, native to sunny hillsides in South America and western North America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyIridaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 36
- With media
- 32
- Family
- Iridaceae
- Collections
- US, UFRGS, MO, CHSC, CAS, REED
- Recorded in
- Bolivia, Peru, United States, Argentina
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Description
- Etymology
- Taxonomy
- References
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Olsynium is a genus of summer-dormant rhizomatous perennial flowering plants in the iris family Iridaceae, native to sunny hillsides in South America and western North America.
==Description== Height is tall. Leaves are linear, long and broad.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olsynium” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.