page_title: Leucospermum reflexum
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Leucospermum reflexum / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: English: Leucospermum reflexum at the UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley, California, USA. Identified by sign.
context_page_description: Leucospermum reflexum is a large rounded shrub that is assigned to the family Proteaceae. It grows from a single trunk and its branches are covered in smooth grey bark. It has small elliptic to inverted lance-shaped greyish leaves of only 2–5½ cm long. The heads consist of mostly dark orange 4-merous flowers, from which long, identically colored styles emerge, which are directed straight down during flowering. It is called rocket pincushion or skyrocket leucospermum in English and perdekop in Afrikaans. It flowers from the end of August to December. It is an endemic species that can only be found in the southwest of South Africa.
context_section_description: The rocket pincushion was first collected in 1830 by Johann Franz Drège, who found it near the Heuning Vlei. Heinrich Wilhelm Buek created the name Leucospermum reflexum in a book by Johann Franz Drège from 1843, and Carl Meissner provided in 1856 a description for L. reflexum. Otto Kuntze moved the species in 1891 to Leucadendron. L. reflexum has been assigned to the section Cardinistyle. The species name reflexum originates from Latin and means "turned back".
caption: the rare yellow form, which is relatively often cultivated, here in the University of California Botanical Garden
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