Sparaxis elegans. Introduced by Irish plant hunter Captain Walter Synnot from the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Copper-coloured streptanthera, Streptanthera cuprea. Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.

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