Cotyledon adscendens
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Cotyledon adscendens is a species of the genus Cotyledon in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet adscendens comes from Latin , means 'ascending' and refers to the growth habit of the species.
description
Cotyledon adscendens grows only slightly branched with upright and spreading shoots and reaches a height of 1.60 meters. The green and obovate to spatulate leaves are 2 to 6 inches long and 1 to 2.8 inches wide. The leaf surface is flat and slightly concave. The upper half of the leaf margin is reddish in color. The leaf base is wedge-shaped and the tip has attached tips.
The 15 to 36 centimeter high inflorescence consists of 1 to 3 dichasias . The purple inflorescence stalk has a diameter of 3 millimeters at the base. The flower stalk becomes 13 to 22 millimeters long. The sepals are 5 × 4 millimeters and the tubular and orange-red corolla 15 to 24 millimeters in size. The tube is 12 to 18 millimeters long and 10 millimeters in diameter. The ribbon-shaped corolla lobes are 13 millimeters long and 5 millimeters wide at the base. The stamens are 22 millimeters long and are fused with the corolla tube over a length of 7 millimeters. The anthers are 1.5 millimeters long. The carpel is 22 millimeters long including style and stigma. The transversely elongated, thick and yellow-colored nectar scales rise, spread out and become 1 × 2.5 millimeters in size.
Distribution and systematics
Cotyledon adscendens is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape in thickets of dunes.
The first description by Robert Allen Dyer was published in 1949.
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 25 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 3.
- ^ Flowering Plants of Africa . Volume 27, 1949, plate 1080.
Web links
- Brief description and photos for Art