Ledebouria

Ledebouria
Ledebouria luteola
Systematics
Class : Bedecktsamer (Magnoliopsida) Monocots Order : Asparagales (Asparagales) Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae) Subfamily : Scilloideae Genre : Ledebouria
Scientific name
Ledebouria
Roth

Ledebouria is a plant kind from 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 sprouting and then group-forming persistent geophytes whose bulbs have somewhat fleshy onion scales. The variable leaves that are present at the time of flowering are spread out and usually speckled.

On the paniculate, ascending inflorescence there are small, thread-like, flower-bearing bracts. The six expanded to recurved, papillate tepals are fused together at their base. The six stamens are free, their stamens stalk around and moving dust bag introrse. The stalked, cone-shaped ovary is notched at its base. The stylus is round, the stigma head -shaped .

The fruits are triangular, obovate loculicidal capsules . They contain obovate, black seeds .

Systematics and distribution

The genus Ledebouria is common in tropical and southern Africa as well as in India .

The first description by Albrecht Wilhelm Roth was published in 1821. Synonyms are Eratobotry's Fenzl ex Endl. (1842) and Xeodolon Salisb. (1866).

The genus Ledebouria includes the following species:

Ledebouria cooperi

Ledebouria minima

Ledebouria ovatifolia

Ledebouria revoluta

Ledebouria socialis

Ledebouria zebrina

Ledebouria zebrina

• Ledebouria apertiflora (Baker) Jessop : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria asperifolia (van der Merwe) S.Venter : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria atrobrunnea S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Gauteng .
• Ledebouria caesiomontana Hankey & N. Hahn : It occurs in the South African province of Limpopo . It was first described in 2014.
• Ledebouria camerooniana (Baker) Speta : It occurs from Benin to western and central tropical Africa.
• Ledebouria concolor (Baker) Jessop : It occurs in the Eastern Cape.
• Ledebouria confusa S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Gauteng . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria cooperi (Hook.f.) Jessop : It occurs in southern Africa.
• Ledebouria cordifolia (Baker) Stedje & Thulin : It occurs from Ethiopia to southern tropical Africa.
• Ledebouria coriacea S.Venter : It occurs in the Eastern Cape. It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria corrugata D.M. Cumming : It occurs in the eastern former Cape Province. It was first described in 2015.
• Ledebouria cremnophila S.Venter & van Jaarsv. : It occurs in the South African province of Mpumalanga . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria crispa S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Limpopo .
• Ledebouria dolomiticola S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Limpopo .
• Ledebouria edulis (Engl.) Stedje : It occurs from western Ethiopian to Tanzania.
• Ledebouria ensifolia (Eckl.) S.Venter & TJEdwards : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria floribunda (Baker) Jessop : It occurs from the Eastern Cape to Limpopo Province .
• Ledebouria galpinii (Baker) S.Venter & TJEdwards : It occurs in the South African province of Mpumalanga . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria glauca S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Limpopo . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria grandifolia (Balf.f.) AGMill. & D.Alexander : It only occurs in Socotra .
• Ledebouria hyderabadensis M.V. Ramana, Prasanna & Venu : It occurs in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh .
• Ledebouria hypoxidioides (Schönland) Jessop : It occurs in the Eastern Cape.
• Ledebouria inquinata (CASm.) Jessop : It occurs in Botswana and South Africa.
• Ledebouria insularis A.G. Mill. : It only occurs on the island of Socotra . It was first described in 2004.
• Ledebouria karnatakensis Punekar & Lakshmin. : It occurs in the Indian state of Karnataka .
• Ledebouria kirkii (Baker) Stedje & Thulin : It occurs from southern Ethiopia to Tanzania.
• Ledebouria lepida (NEBr.) S.Venter : It occurs in northern South Africa.
• Ledebouria leptophylla (Baker) S.Venter : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria lilacina (Fenzl ex Endl.) Speta : It occurs in Sudan.
• Ledebouria luteola Jessop : It occurs in Botswana and northern South Africa.
• Ledebouria macowanii (Baker) S.Venter It is found in South Africa.
• Ledebouria maesta (Baker) Speta : It occurs in Sudan, Malawi and Mozambique.
• Ledebouria marginata (Baker) Jessop : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria minima (Baker) S.Venter : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria mokobulanensis Hankey & TJEdwards : It occurs in the South African province of Mpumalanga . It was first described in 2008.
• Ledebouria monophylla S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Mpumalanga . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria nossibeensis (H.Perrier) JCManning & Goldblatt : It occurs in northern Madagascar.
• Ledebouria ovalifolia (Schrad.) Jessop : It occurs in the Cape Province.
• Ledebouria ovatifolia (Baker) Jessop : It occurs in South Africa. With the subspecies:
  • Ledebouria ovatifolia subsp. ovatifolia : It occurs in South Africa.
  • Ledebouria ovatifolia subsp. scabrida N.R. Crouch & TJEdwards : It occurs in KwaZulu-Natal.
• Ledebouria papillata S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Limpopo . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria pardalota S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Mpumalanga . It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria parvifolia S.Venter : It occurs in the South African province of Mpumalanga .
• Ledebouria pustulata S.Venter : It occurs in KwaZulu-Natal. It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria remifolia S.Venter : It occurs in northern South Africa. It was first described in 2009.
• Ledebouria revoluta (Lf) Jessop : It occurs from Eritrea to South Africa, on the southwestern Arabian Peninsula, in India and in Sri Lanka.
• Ledebouria rietrivierensis D.M.Cumming : It occurs in the Eastern Cape.
• Ledebouria rupestris (van der Merwe) S.Venter : It occurs in northern South Africa.
• Ledebouria sandersonii (Baker) S.Venter & TJEdwards : It occurs in South Africa.
• Ledebouria scabrida Jessop : It occurs in Namibia .
• Ledebouria socialis (Baker) Jessop : It occurs in the former Cape Province.
• Ledebouria somaliensis (Baker) Stedje & Thulin : It occurs in Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania.
• Ledebouria sudanica (A.Chev.) Burg : It occurs from tropical West Africa to Sudan.
• Ledebouria undulata (Jacq.) Jessop : It occurs in Namibia and in the Western Cape.
• Ledebouria urceolata Stedje : It occurs in Ethiopia.
• Ledebouria venteri van Jaarsv. & AEvan Wyk : It occurs in the south-south- western Cape Province.
• Ledebouria viridis S.R.Dutta & P.Harvey ex MRAlmeida : It occurs in the Indian state of Maharashtra.
• Ledebouria viscosa Jessop : It occurs in the South African province of Limpopo.
• Ledebouria zambesiaca (Baker) Speta : It occurs in Malawi, Mozambique and zambia.
• Ledebouria zebrina (Baker) S.Venter : It occurs in South Africa.

proof

literature

• Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld : Ledebouria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 291 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Albrecht Wilhelm Roth: Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis . Halberstadt 1821, pp. 194–196 ( online )
2. ↑ ^{a b} Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Ledebouria. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved September 6, 2016.

Web links

Commons : Ledebouria  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ledebouria in the Red List of South African Plants
• Entry at www.pacificbulbsociety.org