Anacampseros filamentosa

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

Anacampseros filamentosa is a species of plant in the genus Anacampseros from the family Anacampserotaceae . The specific epithet filamentosa means' (Latin filum thread) spider thread; full of spun threads'.

description

Anacampseros filamentosa grows in a columnar shape, reaches heights of up to 10 centimeters and arises with a few fleshy shoots from a swollen rhizome . The shoots are densely covered with leaves . Their egg-shaped to almost spherical leaf blades are 4 to 12 millimeters long, up to 8 millimeters wide and 5 millimeters thick. The dark green, somewhat chin-shaped, bent back and wrinkled spade tip is wrapped in cobweb-like, grayish white hair .

Habit and flower

The inflorescence reaches a length of 5 to 8 centimeters. It bears three to five flowers from 1.5 to 2.0 centimeters (rarely up to 3.0 centimeters) in diameter. Your lanceolate sepals are 5 to 15 millimeters long and about 3.5 millimeters wide. The elongated to lanceolate, pink petals are 10 millimeters (rarely 4 to 15 millimeters) long and 1.5 to 4.0 millimeters (rarely up to 5.0 millimeters) wide. There are 15 to 25 stamens .

The capsule fruits have a length of 7 to 12 millimeters. They contain 0.8 to 1.5 millimeters long, club-shaped to kidney-shaped, warty seeds with a loose, white sheath.

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

Systematics and distribution

Anacampseros filamentosa is common in South Africa.

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

The following subspecies are distinguished:

Anacampseros filamentosa subsp. filamentosa
Anacampseros filamentosa subsp. namaquensis (H. Pearson & Stephens) GDRowley
Anacampseros filamentosa subsp. tomentosa (A.Berger) Gerbaulet

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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. 399.

Individual evidence

^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Miscellanea naturalia, sive dissertationes variæ ad historiam naturalem spectantes . J. Taylor, London 1803, p. 142 (online) .
↑ John Sims: Anacampseros filamentosa. Thready Anacampseros . In: Curtis's botanical magazine . Volume 33, plate 1367 (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 filamentosa. Thready Anacampseros . In: Curtis's botanical magazine . Volume 33, plate 1367 (online) .