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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- Serruria acrocarpa {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria adscendens {{Au|(Lam.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria aemula {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria aitonii {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria altiscapa {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria balanocephala {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria bolusii {{Au|E.Phillips & Hutch.}}
- Serruria brownii {{Au|Meisn.}}
- Serruria candicans {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria collina {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria confragosa {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria cyanoides {{Au|(L.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria cygnea {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria decipiens {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria decumbens {{Au|(Thunb.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria deluvialis {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria dodii {{Au|E.Phillips & Hutch.}}
- Serruria effusa {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria elongata {{Au|(P.J.Bergius) R.Br.}}
- Serruria fasciflora {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria flagellifolia {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria flava {{Au|Meisn.}}
- Serruria florida {{Au|(Thunb.) Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria fucifolia {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria furcellata {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria glomerata {{Au|(L.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria gracilis {{Au|Knight}}
- Serruria gremialis {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria heterophylla {{Au|Meisn.}}
- Serruria hirsuta {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria inconspicua {{Au|L.Guthrie & T.M.Salter}}
- Serruria incrassata {{Au|Meisn.}}
- Serruria kraussii {{Au|Meisn.}}
- Serruria lacunosa {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria leipoldtii {{Au|E.Phillips & Hutch.}}
- Serruria linearis {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria meisneriana {{Au|Schltr.}}
- Serruria millefolia {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria nervosa {{Au|Meisn.}}
- Serruria nivenii {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria pedunculata {{Au|(Lam.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria phylicoides {{Au|(P.J.Bergius) R.Br.}}
- Serruria pinnata {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria rebeloi {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria reflexa {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria rosea {{Au|E.Phillips}}
- Serruria rostellaris {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria roxburghii {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria rubricaulis {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria scoparia {{Au|R.Br.}}
- Serruria stellata {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria trilopha {{Au|Salisb. ex Knight}}
- Serruria triternata {{Au|(Thunb.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria villosa {{Au|(Lam.) R.Br.}}
- Serruria viridifolia {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria williamsii {{Au|Rourke}}
- Serruria zeyheri {{Au|Meisn.}}
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References
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{{Proteaceae genera}}
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Category:Endemic flora of the Cape Provinces
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