Bos revised the genus in 1967, he accepted De Candolle's concept of the genus, describing only two species: L. Burmann's name is the earlier one, and therefore takes precedence, which is why this species is now called Liparia splendens and Liparia sphaerica is a synonym. It was during this study that De Candolle established that Burmann's Leucadendron splendens and Linnaeus' Liparia sphaerica were one and the same. More species were proposed over the years until 1825 when De Candolle studied all the material and excluded all but one species from Liparia and placed the rest into the genera Priestleya, Rafnia or Borbonia. He gave an extensive generic description and described six species with Liparia sphaerica as the type species.Ī colour illustration of Liparia sphaerica was published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1809 (reproduced on the Aluka website). The first publication of Liparia as a new genus was by Linnaeus in the second Mantissa of 1771 (Bos). This publication was based on the collection of Cape plants of his father, J. Burmann under the name Leucadendron splendens, incorrectly placed in Proteaceae (Bos). It next appears in the Prodromus Flora Capensis (1768) published by N.L. Ray got his plant material from Sherard, which implies that the plant described was already growing in Sherard's garden, most likely raised from seed imported at an earlier date. Liparia splendens first appeared in literature in 1704, in John Ray's Histora Plantarum under the name Genista africana rusci foliis etc. The species name splendens is Latin and also means to shine, be bright or radiant, or distinguished - or in a word: splendid! The common name skaamblom means 'shy flower', alluding to the way it shyly bows its flowerheads, and the name geelkoppie meaning 'little yellow head' refers to its showy head ( koppie ) of yellow-orange flowers. The genus Liparia is named from the Greek liparos meaning oily or shiny or brilliant, referring either to the hairless (shiny) leaves or the brilliant flowers. Dahlias belong in the daisy family (Asteraceae) while Liparia is a member of the legume family (Fabaceae), a large diverse family of 650 genera and some 18 000 species. splendens (up to 70 x 85 mm).Īlthough, as its common name suggests, it resembles a dahlia, Liparia splendens is not related to dahlias at all. comantha are also marginally smaller (up to 60 x 70 mm) than those of subsp. comantha more than half of the circumference is hairy. splendens more than half of the circumference is hairless, whereas in subsp. To tell them apart, examine the edges of the flower-bearing bracts and lower calyx lobes in subsp. Liparia splendens is divided into two subspecies: subsp. The pods split explosively to release the seeds. Seeds are brown, bean-shaped, ☖ mm long and ☓ mm wide, and the pods are ± 30 mm long and hairy. The style is longer than the stamens so that the stigma sticks out slightly beyond the anthers. There are 10 stamens, 1 is free and the other 9 are fused to form a short open tube. In Liparia splendens the wing petals are unusual in that they are folded around the keel with interlocking lobes. That is, five petals: a large standard petal, two lateral wing petals and the two lower petals joined along their lower margin to form the keel that encloses the stamens and pistil. Should you wish to damage the beautiful head and remove a single flower to examine it more closely, you will find that the flowers possess all the elements of a typical papilionoid ("butterfly-like") legume flower. Each head consists of 15-17 bright orange to yellow flowers densely packed among conspicuous dark reddish-brown petal-like bracts. Dead leaves dry black.įrom autumn until summer (May-Jan) it bears large, rounded, nodding heads, up to 70 x 85 mm, at the tips of the branches. The veins are prominent, and three or more primary veins arise from the base. Leaves are simple, alternate, sessile, hairless, elliptical and usually end in a sharp long point. splendens is a much-branched, upright, resprouting shrub, usually about 1 m tall.
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