Cyclopia (plant)
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This article is about the genus of legumes. For other plants known as honeybushes, see List of plants known as honeybush.
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]
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Cyclopia | |
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Cyclopia meyeriana | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Fabales |
Family: | Fabaceae |
Subfamily: | Faboideae |
Tribe: | Podalyrieae |
Genus: | Cyclopia Vent.[1] |
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Cyclopia is endemic to South Africa. | |
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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]