''Ledebouria'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of African

bulbous In botany, a bulb is a short underground stem with fleshy leaves or leaf basesBell, A.D. 1997. ''Plant form: an illustrated guide to flowering plant morphology''. Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K. that function as food storage organs duri ...

perennial In horticulture, the term perennial ('' per-'' + '' -ennial'', "through the year") is used to differentiate a plant from shorter-lived annuals and biennials. It has thus been defined as a plant that lives more than 2 years. The term is also ...

herbs in the Asparagus family,

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 ...

, subfamily

Scilloideae Scilloideae (named after the genus ''Scilla'', "squill") is a subfamily of bulbous plants within the family ''Asparagaceae''. Scilloideae is sometimes treated as a separate family Hyacinthaceae, named after the genus ''Hyacinth (plant), Hyacinthus ...

. Most members were previously part of the genus ''

Scilla ''Scilla'' () is a genus of about 30 to 80 species of bulb-forming perennial plant, perennial herbaceous plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae. Sometimes called the squills in English, they are native to woodlands, subalpine ...

''. A number of species are grown by cacti and succulent enthusiasts for their patterned leaves. Most of the species are native to Madagascar and Africa (except North Africa), but a few are from India, Sri Lanka or the Arabian Peninsula.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref> The genus name of ''Ledebouria'' is in honour of Carl Friedrich von Ledebour (1786–1851), a German-Estonia, Estonian botanist. It was first described and published in Nov. Pl. Sp. on page 194 in 1821.

Species

#''Ledebouria apertiflora'' (Baker) Jessop #''Ledebouria asperifolia'' (van der Merwe) S.Venter # ''Ledebouria atrobrunnea'' S.Venter # ''Ledebouria caesiomontana'' Hankey & Hahn # ''Ledebouria camerooniana'' (Baker) Speta # ''Ledebouria concolor'' (Baker) Jessop #''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 dolomiticola'' S.Venter # ''Ledebouria edulis'' (Engl.) Stedje # ''Ledebouria ensifolia'' (Eckl.) S.Venter & T.J.Edwards # ''Ledebouria floribunda'' (Baker) Jessop # ''Ledebouria galpinii'' (Baker) S.Venter & T.J.Edwards #''Ledebouria glauca'' S.Venter # ''Ledebouria grandifolia'' (Balf.f.) A.G.Mill. & D.Alexander # ''Ledebouria hyderabadensis'' M.V.Ramana, 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 Kunth) Speta # ''Ledebouria luteola'' Jessop # ''Ledebouria macowanii'' (Baker) S.Venter # ''Ledebouria maesta'' (Baker) Speta # ''Ledebouria marginata'' (Baker) Jessop # ''Ledebouria minima'' (Baker) S.Venter # ''Ledebouria mokobulanensis'' A.J.Hankey and T.J.Edwards #''Ledebouria monophylla'' S.Venter #''Ledebouria nossibeensis'' (H.Perrier) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt # ''Ledebouria ovalifolia'' (Schrad.) Jessop # ''Ledebouria ovatifolia'' (Baker) Jessop #''Ledebouria papillata'' S.Venter #''Ledebouria pardalota'' S.Venter # ''Ledebouria parvifolia'' S.Venter #''Ledebouria pustulata'' S.Venter #''Ledebouria remifolia'' S.Venter # ''Ledebouria revoluta'' (L. f.) Jessop #''Ledebouria rupestris'' (van der Merwe) S.Venter # ''Ledebouria sandersonii'' (Baker) S.Venter & T.J.Edwards # ''Ledebouria scabrida'' Jessop # ''Ledebouria socialis'' (Baker) Jessop # ''Ledebouria somaliensis'' (Baker) Stedje & Thulin #''Ledebouria sudanica'' (A.Chev.) Burg in A.Akoègninou & al. # ''Ledebouria undulata'' (Jacq.) Jessop # ''Ledebouria urceolata'' Stedje #''Ledebouria venteri'' van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk # ''Ledebouria viscosa'' Jessop # ''Ledebouria zambesiaca'' (Baker) Speta #''Ledebouria zebrina'' (Baker) S.Venter

References

* Manning, J. C. et al. 2004. A revised generic synopsis of Hyacinthaceae in sub-Saharan Africa, based on molecular evidence, including new combinations and the new tribe Pseudoprospereae. Edinburgh J. Bot. 60:533–568. * Stedje, B. 1998. Phylogenetic relationships and generic delimitation of sub-Saharan Scilla (Hyacinthaceae) and allied African genera as inferred from morphological and DNA sequence data. Pl. Syst. Evol. 211:1–11. * Venter, S. & V. J. Edwards. 1998. A revision of ''Ledebouria'' (Hyacinthaceae) in South Africa. 1. Two new species. Bothalia 28:15–17. * Venter, S. & V. J. Edwards. 1998. A revision of ''Ledebouria'' (Hyacinthaceae) in South Africa. 2. Two new species, ''L. crispa'' and ''L. parvifolia'', and ''L. macowanii'' re-instated. Bothalia 28:179–182. * A.J. Hankeya and T.J. Edwards. ''Ledebouria mokobulanensis'' A.J.Hankey and T.J.Edwards (Hyacinthaceae) a new species from the high altitude grasslands of Mpumalanga. South African Journal of Botany, Volume 74, Issue 2, April 2008, Pages 214–217.

External links

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