Serruria

{{short description|Genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa}}

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|image = Serruria florida.jpg

|image_caption = Serruria florida

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|taxon = Serruria

|authority = Burm. ex Salisb. (1807)

|synonyms = Holderlinia {{small|Neck. (1790), opus utique oppr.}}

|synonyms_ref = [https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:32991-1 Serruria Salisb.] Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 25 September 2023.

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Serruria, or spiderhead is a genus of flowering plants in the family Proteaceae, endemic to South Africa.{{cite web|website= SANBI PlantZAfrica.com|title= Serruria fasciflora|url= http://pza.sanbi.org/serruria-fasciflora}}{{cite book|first= John|last= Manning|year= 2013|title= Field Guide to Wild Flowers of South Africa|publisher= Penguin Random House South Africa|isbn= 978-1920544867}}

Names

Serruria was named in honor of {{interlanguage link|Joseph Serrurier|de|Josephus Serrurier}}, a professor of botany at the Utrecht University early in the eighteenth century. It is called spiderhead in English and spinnekopbos in Afrikaans, because of the silky, finely divided leaves looking like they are covered in spiders webs.

Selected species

Species include:{{cite web |url=http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/resultat.php |title=African plants database |access-date=2008-04-12 }}

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References

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{{Proteaceae genera}}

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Category:Proteaceae genera

Category:Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces

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