Protea nubigena: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Proteales
- Family
- Proteaceae
- Genus
- Protea
- Species
- Protea nubigena
- Scientific Name
- Protea nubigena
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Protea nubigena
Protea nubigena, commonly known as cloud sugarbush, is a very rare species of a flowering shrub belonging to the Protea genus. It is endemic to KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is found in the uKhahlamba Basalt Grassland within the Royal Natal National Park, near Mont-Aux-Sources, at an altitude of about 2,250 metres (7,380 ft) in well-drained, humus-rich soil on shaded slopes.
...Protea nubigena in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Wolkesuikerbos
- English
- Cloud Sugarbush
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Protea caffra
- Protea caffra caffra × dracomontana
- Protea caffra caffra × parvula
- Protea caffra caffra × simplex
- Protea dracomontana
- Protea dracomontana × simplex
- Protea glabra
- Protea glabra × nitida
- Protea inopina
- Protea inyanganiensis
- Protea linearifolia
- Protea minima
- Protea nitida
- Protea nubigena
- Protea parvula
- Protea petiolaris
- Protea rupicola
- Protea simplex





















