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Wiborgia
Sign in to saveWiborgia is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of shrubs endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. They grow in fynbos or renosterveld (Mediterranean-climate shrubland), mostly in sandy flats and rocky areas. The genus was named for Erik Viborg by Carl Peter Thunberg.
Species
Willow Pennypea
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderFabales
- FamilyFabaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 56
- With media
- 57
- Family
- Fabaceae
- Collections
- GH, MO, NY
- Recorded in
- South Africa
Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Crotalarieae
- Image
- Wiborgia Cape.jpg
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- Wiborgia
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Wiborgia is a genus of plants in the legume family, Fabaceae. It includes nine species of shrubs endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. They grow in fynbos or renosterveld (Mediterranean-climate shrubland), mostly in sandy flats and rocky areas. The genus was named for Erik Viborg by Carl Peter Thunberg.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wiborgia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.