| Wachendorfia paniculata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Commelinales |
| Family: | Haemodoraceae |
| Genus: | Wachendorfia |
| Species: | W. paniculata
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| Binomial name | |
| Wachendorfia paniculata Burm., 1757
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Wachendorfia paniculata is a species of plant of 10–90 cm (3.9–35.4 in) high, that emerges during the winter from an underground rootstock. It has entire, sword-shaped, mostly hairy, line- to lance-shaped, straight or sickle-shaped leaves, set in a fan at ground level with a lax to dense panicle consisting of pale apricot to yellow mirror-symmetric flowers with six tepals, three stamens and a undivided style that curves either to the right or left. The species is assigned to the bloodroot family. Flowering occurs between August and December at sea level, and until early February at high altitude, with a distinct peak from September to November. It can only be found in the Cape provinces of South Africa.[1] Like other species of Wachendorfia, it is called butterfly lily in English and rooikanol or spinnekopblom in Afrikaans, and this species in particular is also called koffiepit in Afrikaans.[2][3]
- ^ Helme, N.A.; Linder, H.P. (1992). "Morphology, evolution and taxonomy of Wachendorfia (Haemodoraceae)" (PDF). Bothalia. 22 (1): 59–75. doi:10.4102/abc.v22i1.826.
- ^ John Manning and Peter Goldblatt, ed. (2012). "Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region - 1: The Core Cape Flora" (PDF). Strelitzia. 29. Pretoria: South African National Biodiversity Institute: 97.
- ^ Foden, W.; Potter, L. "Koffiepit". Red List of South African Plants.