Cotyledon campanulata

Cotyledon campanulata
	Cotyledon campanulata
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family :	Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily :	Kalanchoideae
Genre :	Cotyledon
Type :	Cotyledon campanulata
Scientific name
	Cotyledon campanulata
	Marloth

Cotyledon campanulata is a species of the genus Cotyledon in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet campanulata comes from Latin , means 'bell-shaped' and refers to the shape of the flowers.

description

Cotyledon campanulata grows prostrate to upright and reaches a height of up to 20 centimeters. The shoots stand upright or spread out. The hairy leaves are short stalked and occasionally covered with sticky glandular hairs . The linear, sometimes petiolate and rarely lanceolate leaf blades are 4 to 13 inches long and 1 to 3.5 inches wide. The green to yellowish-green upper side is furrowed, the base is wedge-shaped and the tip is often heart-shaped with attached tips and a wavy, red-brown edge.

The upright and sticky inflorescence becomes 15 to 30 centimeters high and consists of 3 to 5 dichasias . The peduncle has a diameter of 6 millimeters at the base. The flower stalk is up to 2 inches long. The triangular sepals are 4 millimeters and the cylindrical to urn-shaped tube 5 to 8 millimeters × 10 to 11 millimeters in size. The corolla is colored yellow. The triangular-lanceolate corolla lobes are spread out and 17 to 18 millimeters long. The stamens protrude up to 10 millimeters. The flattened anthers are 1.5 millimeters in diameter. The oblong nectar flakes are yellowish in color and are 1 × 2 millimeters in size.

Hairiness of the leaves
inflorescence

Distribution and systematics

Cotyledon campanulata is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape in Noorsveld and Valley Bushveld.

The first description by Rudolf Marloth was published in 1907.

A synonym is Cotyledon teretifolia Thunberg (1794).

Several cultivars are known:

'Nieuw-Bethesda', the ovate-lanceolate leaves are 3 × 1.2 centimeters in size. The runny blade has a spatula, pointed and reddish tip; comes from Nieuw-Bethesda in the Eastern Cape Province

'Vingers', forms spread out, round shrubs and is up to 14 centimeters tall. The linear-elliptical leaves are 7 × 1.7 centimeters in size and are covered with short hair. The green leaf margin is wavy and reddish near the tip.

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literature

Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 26 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 39.
^ Rudolf Marloth: Some new South African Succulents . In: Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society . Volume 18, 1907, p. 46 ( online ).

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 39.

[2] Rudolf Marloth: Some new South African Succulents . In: Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society . Volume 18, 1907, p. 46 ( online ).