''Ledebouria floribunda'' is a species of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (). The term angiosperm is derived from the Ancient Greek, Greek words (; 'container, vessel') and (; 'seed'), meaning that the seeds are enclosed with ...
in the
Asparagaceae
Asparagaceae (), known as the asparagus family, is a family of flowering plants, placed in the order Asparagales of the monocots. The family name is based on the edible garden asparagus, '' Asparagus officinalis''. This family includes both ...
family. It is a bulbous
geophyte native to South Africa, Eswatini, and Lesotho.
Uses
A number of
homoisoflavanone
Homoisoflavonoids (3-benzylidenechroman-4-ones) are a type of phenolic compounds occurring naturally in plants.
Chemically, they have the general structure of a 16-carbon skeleton, which consists of two phenyl rings (A and B) and heterocyclic ri ...
s can be isolated from the bulbs of ''L. floribunda''.
[Homoisoflavanones from Ledebouria floribunda. María Isabel Calvo, Fitoterapia, March 2009, Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages 96–101, ]
Etymology
''Ledebouria'' is named for
(1785–1851),
[Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. (hardback), (paperback). pp 232] a botanist who published, among other things, the first complete Russian flora.
References
* Journal of South African Botany. Kirstenbosch 36:251. 1970
floribunda
Flora of Lesotho
Flora of South Africa
Flora of Swaziland
Plants described in 1970
Taxa named by John Gilbert Baker
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