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''Fluminaria'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family
Asteraceae The family Asteraceae, alternatively Compositae, consists of over 32,000 known species of flowering plants in over 1,900 genera within the order Asterales. Commonly referred to as the aster, daisy, composite, or sunflower family, Compositae w ...
. It has only one currently accepted species, ''Fluminaria pinifolia'', native to
Lesotho Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...
, and
KwaZulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged. It is locate ...
in South Africa. It prefers to live alongside streams in mountainous areas.


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Gnaphalieae Monotypic Asteraceae genera Flora of Lesotho Flora of KwaZulu-Natal Plants described in 2017 Taxa named by N. E. Brown {{Gnaphalieae-stub