Ceraria pygmaea
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Ceraria pygmaea is a species of plant in the genus Ceraria in the family Didiereaceae . However, some authors call it Portulacaria pygmaea Pillans back to the genus Portulacaria Jacq. posed.
description
Ceraria pygmaea grows as a dioecious, more or less evergreen miniature subshrub and is up to 20 cm high and 30 cm wide. The intricately branched thick shoots are fleshy and have a silver-gray bark. They arise from a swollen woody caudex . The elongated ovate and succulent leaves are arranged opposite to one another. They can be 9 to 15 mm long and 6 to 8 mm wide. The glaucous gray-green leaves with an attached tip reach a thickness of 3 to 5 mm.
The white to pale pink colored flowers are 2 to 6 pieces together and reach a diameter of 2 to 4 mm.
Distribution and systematics
Ceraria pygmaea is widespread in South Africa in the Northern Cape Province and there in the Little Namaqualand .
The first description of Ceraria pygmaea done as Portulacaria pygmaea 1928 Pillans. GD Rowley put the species in 1996 to the genus Ceraria .
literature
- DG Rowley: Ceraria . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Succulents Lexicon Volume 2 Dicotyledonous plants (dicotyledons). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 405-406.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Ceraria pygmaea. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved March 18, 2020.
- ^ In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign London, Volume 66, 1928, p. 195.
- ^ Gordon Douglas Rowley : Taxonomic innovations for the IOS Lexicon . In: Bradleya . Volume 14, 1996, p. 82.
