Conicosia
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Conicosia is a genus of plants fromthe afternoon flower family (Aizoaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Greek word konikos for 'conical' and refers to the conical fruits.
description
The species of the genus Conicosia grow as perennial plants with a predominantly vegetative tuft of leaves in the middle and deciduous side branches with often alternate leaves that produce the inflorescence. They have perennial tap roots or tubers. The cylindrical or triangular leaves are up to 40 centimeters long. Your epidermis does not contain any bladder cells .
The flowers are erect and have five sepals . Their petals, which are ciliate in the lower half, are yellow. The more or less bowl-shaped to bell-shaped, xerochastic fissure fruits have no swelling tissue.
Systematics and distribution
The genus Conicosia is widespread in South Africa in the Namaqualand , in the North Cape Province and the western districts of the Western Cape Province . It grows mainly in open, sandy places in the winter rainy areas.
The first description of the genus by Nicholas Edward Brown was published in 1925. The genus Conicosia is divided into two sub-genera with the following species and subspecies:
- Subgenus Herrea (Schwantes) Ihlenf. & Gerbaulet
- Conicosia elongata (Haw.) Schwantes
- Subgenus Conicosia
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Conicosia pugioniformis (L.) NEBr.
- Conicosia pugioniformis subsp. pugioniformis
- Conicosia pugioniformis subsp. alborosea (L.Bolus) Ihlenf. & Gerbaulet
- Conicosia pugioniformis subsp. muirii (NEBr.) Ihlenf. & Gerbaulet
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Conicosia pugioniformis (L.) NEBr.
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literature
- Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae AE . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 131-133 .
- Gideon Smith et al. a. (Ed.): Mesembs of the World: Illustrated Guide to a Remarkable Succulent Group . Briza Publications, 1998, ISBN 1-875093-13-3 , pp. 68-69 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gardeners' Chronicle . 3rd episode, Volume 78, London 1925, p. 433.
further reading
- HD Ihlenfeldt, M. Gerbaulet: Investigations into the inventory of characteristics and the taxonomy of the genera Apatesia NEBr., Carpanthea NEBr., Conicosia NEBr., Herrea Schwantes and Hymenogyne Haw. (Mesembryanthemaceae Fenzl.) . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics . Volume 111, Number 4, 1990, pp. 457-498.
