Lophiola

Golden-crest
1813 illustration[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Dioscoreales
Family: Nartheciaceae
Genus: Lophiola
Ker Gawl.
Species:
L. aurea
Binomial name
Lophiola aurea
Ker Gawl.
Synonyms[2]
  • Argolasia tomentosa Raf.
  • Lophiola tomentosa (Raf.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.
  • Conostylis americana Pursh
  • Helonias tomentosa Muhl. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
  • Lophiola americana (Pursh) A.Wood
  • Lophiola breviflora Gand.
  • Lophiola floridana Gand.
  • Lophiola septentrionalis Fernald

Lophiola is a genus of monocotyledonous flowering plants native to eastern North America. It has variously been placed in the Liliaceae, the Haemodoraceae, the Tecophilaeaceae or the Nartheciaceae.[2][3][4][1]

Fernald (1921)[6] recommended recognizing three species, separating the Nova Scotia populations as L. septentrionalis and the New Jersey-Delaware material as L. americana. More recent investigations, however, have suggested that the group be regarded as one species.[7][2]

Lophiola aurea is found in wet locations at elevations less than 100 m. It is a perennial herb up to 90 cm tall, spreading by means of underground rhizomes. It has yellow flowers about 10 mm across, and dry capsules about 4 mm in diameter.[3][8][9] Goldencrest is a common name.[10]

  1. ^ a b Ker Gawler, John Bellenden 1813. Botanical Magazine 39: plate 1596 and 2 subsequent text pages full-page color illustration by Sydenham Edwards, descriptions in Latin and English
  2. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. ^ a b "Lophiola in Flora of North America @ efloras.org". www.efloras.org. Retrieved 2017-01-25.
  4. ^ Govaerts, R., Wilkin, P. & Saunders, R.M.K. (2007). World Checklist of Dioscoreales. Yams and their allies: 1-65. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  5. ^ BONAP (Biota of North America Program) 2013 county distribution map, Lophiola aurea
  6. ^ Fernald, M. L. 1921. The Gray Herbarium expedition to Nova Scotia, 1920. Rhodora 23: 153–171, 223–245.
  7. ^ Zavada, M., Zu X. L., and J. M. Edwards. 1983. On the taxonomic status of Lophiola aurea Ker-Gawler. Rhodora 85: 73–81
  8. ^ Gleason, H. A. & A.J. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of the Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent Canada (ed. 2) i–910. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx.
  9. ^ Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
  10. ^ USDA, NRCS (n.d.). "​Lophiola aurea​". The PLANTS Database (plants.usda.gov). Greensboro, North Carolina: National Plant Data Team. Retrieved 23 June 2015.