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Eights Blombush
Metalasia octoflora
Metalasia octoflora, the Swartland blombos, is a flowering shrub belonging to the Asteraceae family. The species is endemic to South Africa and occurs in the Western Cape, from Malmesbury to Durbanville, Paarl and Wolseley. The plant has a range of 1 583-1 828 km² and is part of the fynbos. There were eight to ten populations that are now severely fragmented. Suburban development and crop cultivation have already taken over 90% of the species' habitat. The...
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 589936.