Anacampseros arachnoides

Anacampseros arachnoides
	Anacampseros arachnoides
Systematics
	Eudicotyledons
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Anacampserotaceae
Genre :	Anacampseros
Type :	Anacampseros arachnoides
Scientific name
	Anacampseros arachnoides
	( Haw. ) Sims

Anacampseros arachnoides is a species of plant in the genus Anacampseros from the family Anacampserotaceae . The specific epithet arachnoides comes from Latin and means 'looking like cobweb, like a cobweb'.

description

Anacampseros arachnoides grows with densely leafy shoots , reaches heights of up to 5 centimeters and arises from a somewhat tuberous root . The green, shiny, sometimes purple, broadly ovate to clearly pointed, mostly aspiring leaf blade is 10 to 20 millimeters long, 9 to 15 millimeters wide and almost as thick. At the end there is a thorny point. The leaf blade is more or less covered with fine, grayish white hairs . The leaf axils have hair and a few short bristles.

The inflorescence reaches a length of 5 to 8 centimeters. It bears three to five flowers . Your ovate-lanceolate sepals are about 10 millimeters long. The broad, elongated egg-shaped, pointed petals are white and sometimes sometimes pink. There are 15 to 25 stamens . The kidney-shaped, beaked, warty seeds are flatly ribbed.

The chromosome numbers are . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 18.36}$

Systematics and distribution

Anacampseros arachnoides is widespread in South Africa in the Western Cape Province in the Little and Great Karoo .

It was first described as Portulaca arachnoides in 1803 by Adrian Hardy Haworth . John Sims (1749-1831) put the species in 1811 in the genus Anacampseros . Nomenclatory synonyms are Talinum arachnoides (Haw.) WTAiton (1811) and Ruelingia arachnoides (Haw.) Haw. (1812).

proof

literature

Gordon D. Rowley : Anacampseros . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . Volume 2: Dicotyledons (dicotyledons), Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , p. 398.

Individual evidence

^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Miscellanea naturalia, sive dissertationes variæ ad historiam naturalem spectantes . J. Taylor, London 1803, p. 142 (online) .
↑ John Sims: Anacampseros arachnoides. White-Flowered Anacampseros . In: Curtis's botanical magazine . Volume 33, plate 1368 (online) .

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[1] Adrian Hardy Haworth: Miscellanea naturalia, sive dissertationes variæ ad historiam naturalem spectantes . J. Taylor, London 1803, p. 142 (online) .

[2] John Sims: Anacampseros arachnoides. White-Flowered Anacampseros . In: Curtis's botanical magazine . Volume 33, plate 1368 (online) .