Anacampseros rufescens

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

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Anacampseros rufescens is a species of plant in the genus Anacampseros from the family Anacampserotaceae . The specific epithet rufescens comes from Latin and means 'fox-red shimmering'.

description

Anacampseros rufescens grows compact, clump-shaped with densely leafy rosettes , reaches heights of growth of 5 to 8 centimeters and arises from a bulbous, thickened rhizome . The obovate to lanceolate, slightly bent back, pointed, warty leaf blade is 20 millimeters long, 10 millimeters wide and almost 4 millimeters thick. It is almost flat on the green upper side and convex on the purple underside. The leaf axils have clearly recognizable hair and some bristles.

The inflorescence reaches a length of 10 centimeters. It bears two to four flowers 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter. Their broad, egg-shaped petals are carmine-colored. There are 30 to 45 stamens available. The D-shaped, white enveloped, non-winged seeds are covered with rounded warts.

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 36}$

Systematics and distribution

Anacampseros rufescens is common in South Africa in the provinces of Eastern Cape , Free State and KwaZulu-Natal as well as in Lesotho .

It was first described as Ruelingia rufescens in 1819 by Adrian Hardy Haworth . Robert Sweet placed the species in the genus Anacampseros in 1826 .

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. 400.

Individual evidence

^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, pp. 64-65 (online) .
↑ Sweet's Hortus britannicus . 1st edition, 1826, p. 170 (online) .

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[1] Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, pp. 64-65 (online) .

[2] Sweet's Hortus britannicus . 1st edition, 1826, p. 170 (online) .