Corpuscularia

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Corpuscularia
Corpuscularia lehmannii

Corpuscularia lehmannii

Systematics
Eudicotyledons
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Midday flowers (Aizoaceae)
Subfamily : Ruschioideae
Genre : Corpuscularia
Scientific name
Corpuscularia
Schwantes

Corpuscularia is a plant kind from the family of aizoaceae (Aizoaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Latin word corpusculum , the name for a small three-dimensional body, and was probably chosen to allude to the firm leaves that are as wide as they are thick on short shoots and make them appear like a solid body.

description

The species of the genus Corpuscularia are very densely leafy plants. They either grow compactly with a few long flower stems and visible, two-edged internodes or as loose, low shrubs or mats that often form a thick taproot . The whitish gray leaves are boat-shaped or sharp triangular and pointed. Their keel is often smooth and cartilaginous. They are considerably longer on long shoots and the plant base than on short shoots.

The flowers appear solitary and are bract-like. They reach a diameter of up to 50 millimeters. There are six to eight sepals available. The petals are yellow or white to pale pink and wither black. The filamentous staminodes are white or pink in color and yellow at their tips. The white stamens are in their mid- papillose . The anthers are yellow to orange in color. There are six to eight nectaries . The flowering time is mainly in spring and summer. The flowers open in the morning and shoot in the evening.

The capsule fruits are hemispherical to bell-shaped at the base. Your source bars run parallel. The valve wings are very wide, often twice as wide as the swelling ridges (capsules of the Delosperma type). There are usually six subjects, but there can be up to ten subjects. The seeds contained in them are light brown.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Corpuscularia is widespread in the southeast of the South African province of Eastern Cape on rocky slopes with quartzite rubble, in open places in the bush or grass. The species grow in areas where precipitation falls mainly in summer or all year round.

The first description of the genre by Gustav Schwantes was published in 1926. The type species is Corpuscularia lehmannii . The genus Corpuscularia includes the following species:

proof

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. 175-178 .
  • 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. 278-279 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Schwantes: On the systematics of the Mesembryanthemen . In: Journal of Succulents . Volume 2, 1926, p. 186.

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