Biology:Leucadendron meyerianum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Leucadendron meyerianum
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Proteales
Family: Proteaceae
Genus: Leucadendron
Species:
L. meyerianum
Binomial name
Leucadendron meyerianum
H.Buek ex E.Phillips & Hutch.

Leucadendron meyerianum, the Van Rhynsdorp conebush, is a flower-bearing shrub that belongs to the genus Leucadendron and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native to the Western Cape and Northern Cape, where it occurs in the Bokkeveld escarpment near Nieuwoudtville. The shrub grows 2.0 m tall and bears flowers in August. Two months after the plant has flowered, the fruit appears and the seeds later fall to the ground where they are spread by rodents. The plant grows in level, sandstone sand at altitudes of 800 m. Small beetles do the pollination.

In Afrikaans it known as Vanrhynsdorptolbos.

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q18077579 entry