Lophiola

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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|name = Golden-crest

|image = Lophiola aurea CBM.png

|image_caption = 1813 illustration

|genus = Lophiola

|parent_authority =Ker Gawl.

|species = aurea

|authority = Ker Gawl.

|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=308208 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]

|synonyms =

• 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

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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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=118895|title=Lophiola in Flora of North America @ efloras.org|website=www.efloras.org|access-date=2017-01-25}}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.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/485622#page/11/mode/1up 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

• Lophiola aurea Ker Gawl. - southeastern United States from Louisiana to North Carolina; also isolated populations in Delaware, New Jersey, and Nova Scotia[http://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Lophiola%20aurea.png BONAP (Biota of North America Program) 2013 county distribution map, Lophiola aurea]

Fernald (1921)Fernald, M. L. 1921. The Gray Herbarium expedition to Nova Scotia, 1920. Rhodora 23: 153–171, 223–245. 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.Zavada, M., Zu X. L., and J. M. Edwards. 1983. On the taxonomic status of Lophiola aurea Ker-Gawler. Rhodora 85: 73–81

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.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.Wunderlin, R. P. 1998. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida i–x, 1–806. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Goldencrest is a common name.{{PLANTS|id=LOAU|taxon=Lophiola aurea|accessdate=23 June 2015}}