Ledebouria
Ledebouria luteola
Ledebouria is a plant genus of the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The botanical name of the genus honors the German botanist Carl Friedrich von Ledebour.
Description
The species of the genus Ledebouria are single or budding and then group-forming perennial geophytes, the onions have slightly fleshy bulb scales. The flowering time existing, variable leaves are spread out and spotted a rule.
On rispigen, ascending inflorescence are small thread-like, flower-bearing bracts. The six spreading to recurved, papillaten tepals are fused together at their base. The six stamens are free, their filaments terete and the moving dust bag intrors. The pedunculated, cone-shaped ovary is notched at its base. The stylus is terete, the stigma capitate.
Fruits are triangular, obovate lokulizide capsule. It operates contain egg-shaped, black seeds.
Systematics and distribution
The genus is widespread in tropical Ledebouria and Southern Africa, and India.
The first description by Albrecht Wilhelm Roth was published in 1821. The genus Ledebouria include the following types:
- Ledebouria apertiflora ( Baker) Jessop
- Ledebouria asperifolia (van der Merwe ) S.Venter
- Ledebouria atrobrunnea S.Venter
- Ledebouria camerooniana ( Baker) Speta
- Ledebouria confusa S.Venter
- Ledebouria cooperi ( Hook.f. ) Jessop
- Ledebouria cordifolia ( Baker) Stedje & Thulin
- Ledebouria coriacea S.Venter
- Ledebouria cremnophila S.Venter & van Jaarsv.
- Ledebouria crispa S.Venter
- Ledebouria dolomitic cola S.Venter
- Ledebouria edulis ( Engl ) Stedje
- Ledebouria ensifolia ( Eckl. ) S.Venter & TJEdwards
- Ledebouria floribunda ( Baker) Jessop
- Ledebouria galpinii ( Baker) S.Venter & TJEdwards
- Ledebouria glauca S.Venter
- Ledebouria grandifolia ( Balf.f. ) A.G.Mill. & D.Alexander
- Ledebouria hyderabadensis MVRamana, Prasanna & Venu
- Ledebouria hypoxidioides ( Schönland ) Jessop
- Ledebouria inquinata ( C.A.Sm. ) Jessop
- Ledebouria insularis A.G.Mill.
- Ledebouria karnatakensis Punekar & Lakshmin.
- Ledebouria kirkii ( Baker) Stedje & Thulin
- Ledebouria lepida ( N.E.Br. ) S.Venter
- Ledebouria leptophylla ( Baker) S.Venter
- Ledebouria lilacina ( Fenzl ex Endl. ) Speta
- Ledebouria luteola Jessop
- Ledebouria macowanii ( Baker) S.Venter
- Ledebouria maesta ( Baker) Speta
- Ledebouria marginata ( Baker) Jessop
- Ledebouria minima ( Baker) S.Venter
- Ledebouria mokobulanensis Hankey & T.J.Edwards
- Ledebouria monophylla S.Venter
- Ledebouria nossibeensis ( H.Perrier ) JCManning & Goldblatt
- Ledebouria ovalifolia ( Schrad. ) Jessop
- Ledebouria ovatifolia ( Baker) Jessop Ledebouria ovatifolia subsp. ovatifolia
- Ledebouria ovatifolia subsp. scabrida N.R.Crouch & T.J.Edwards
Synonyms are Eratobotrys Fenzl ex Endl. (1842 ) and Xeodolon Salisb. (1866 ).