Chironia palustris Burch. is a plant in the Gentianaceae family, order Gentianales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

Photo of Chironia palustris Burch. (Chironia palustris Burch.)
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Chironia palustris Burch.

Chironia palustris Burch.

Chironia palustris, or Transvaal chironia, is a Chironia plant species native to multiple southern and eastern African countries.

Family
Genus
Chironia
Order
Gentianales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Chironia palustris Burch.

Chironia palustris, commonly known as Transvaal chironia or cerise stars, is a species belonging to the plant genus Chironia. This species is native to Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Within South Africa, this plant grows in all of the country's provinces.

Photo: (c) Troos van der Merwe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Troos van der Merwe · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Gentianales Gentianaceae Chironia

More from Gentianaceae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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