Cyclopia (plant)

This article is about the genus of legumes. For other plants known as honeybushes, see List of plants known as honeybush.

Cyclopia
Cyclopia meyeriana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Podalyrieae
Genus: Cyclopia
Vent.[1]
Sections and species

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Cyclopia is endemic to South Africa.
Synonyms[2]
  • Ibbetsonia Sims

Cyclopia, the honeybush, or heuningbos in Afrikaans, is a genus of some 20 species of flowering plants in the legume family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae. Species of the genus are native to the southern and southwestern Cape Provinces of South Africa.[3]

Its description was published by the French botanist Étienne Pierre Ventenat in 1808. The name Ibbetsonia, published two years later, is regarded as a synonym of this genus;[4] John Sims had commemorated the physiologist Agnes Ibbetson with this name.[4]

  1. ^ "Cyclopia". International Plant Names Index (IPNI). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Harvard University Herbaria & Libraries; Australian National Botanic Gardens. Retrieved 14 October 2010.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Schutte was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Cyclopia Vent. Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  4. ^ a b Boulger, George Simonds (1891). "Ibbetson, Agnes" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co. Ibbetsonia, Curtis's Botanical Magazine (t. 1259, 1810)