Cotyledon cuneata
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Cotyledon cuneata is a species of the genus Cotyledon in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet cuneata comes from Latin , means 'wedge-shaped' and refers to the shape of the leaves.
description
Cotyledon cuneata forms prostrate to upright, short shrubs and reaches a height of up to 30 centimeters (without inflorescence). The shoots are prostrate to ascending. The variable leaves are glaucous to glabrous and rarely sticky. The obovate to lanceolate leaf blade is 6 to 17 centimeters long and 2.5 to 10 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is reddish in color, the leaf base is wedge-shaped and has a short stalk. The leaves are thorny towards the tip.
The upright and sticky inflorescence becomes 20 to 80 centimeters high and consists of 3 to 5 dichasias . The peduncle has a diameter of 12 millimeters at the base. The flower stalk is 12 millimeters long and 2 millimeters in diameter. The sepals are 5 millimeters long. The cylindrical to urn-shaped tube is 6 to 10 millimeters long and 10 to 11 millimeters in diameter. The sticky corolla is colored yellow. The expanded corolla lobes are up to 18 millimeters long. The stamens protrude up to 10 to 12 millimeters. The oblong nectar flakes are yellowish in color and are 1.5 × 2 millimeters in size.
Distribution and systematics
Cotyledon cuneata is widespread in the South African provinces of North Cape and Western Cape in the succulent and Nama- Karoo .
The first description by Carl Peter Thunberg was published in 1794.
Synonyms are Adromischus cuneatus (Thunb.) Lem. (1852) and Cotyledon pillansii Schönland (1907).
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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. 58.
- ^ Carl Peter Thunberg: Prodromus Plantarum Capensium Quas, In Promontorio Bonae Spei Africes, Annis 1772 - 1775. Uppsala 1794, p. 83 ( online ).
Web links
- Photos and description (fr.) At the International Crassulaceae Network
- Photo of a plant in the habitat
