Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron
| Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| Order: | Proteales |
| Family: | Proteaceae |
| Genus: | Leucospermum |
| Species: | L. hypophyllocarpodendron |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron (L.) Druce | |
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Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron, the snake-stemmed pincushion,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae native to South Africa.
Description
Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron is a prostrate or decumbent shrub,[1] forming a "straggling carpet".[2] Its upward-pointing leaves are narrow, lanceolate to channeled, 40–130 millimetres (1.6–5.1 in) long, and covered with a thick grey indumentum.[1]
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1753 work Species Plantarum, as Leucadendron hypophyllocarpodendron, one of the longest names in that work. Linnaeus transferred the species to Protea in his Mantissa Plantarum.[3] When he erected the segregate genus Leucospermum in 1809, Robert Brown called the species Leucospermum hypophyllum;[3] this is the type species of the genus Leucospermum.[4] Under the current rules of plant nomenclature, the oldest specific epithet must be used; George Claridge Druce rectified this situation when he published the new combination Leucospermum hypophyllocarpodendron alongside dozens of similar cases in 1913.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 John Manning (2010). Field guide to wild flowers of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. Struik. p. 184. ISBN 9781770077584.
- ↑ Anton Pauw & Steven Johnson (1999). Table Mountain: a Natural History. Fernwood Press. pp. 19–20. ISBN 9781874950431.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Robert Brown (1809). "On the Proteaceae of Jussieu". Transactions of the Linnean Society of London X: 15–226.
- ↑ W. H. Camp, H. W. Rickett & C. A. Weatherby (1947). "Appendix III: Nomina Generica Conservanda, [Section 10]". Brittonia 6 (1): 47–93. JSTOR 2804665.
- ↑ G. Claridge Druce (1913). "Notes on nomenclature: notes on some of the trivials used in the early works of Linnaeus" (PDF). Report of the Botanical Exchange Club of the British Isles 3 (5): 405–426.