Cotyledon papillaris
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Cotyledon papillaris is a species of the genus Cotyledon in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Cotyledon papillaris grows as a branched, dwarf shrub, lying down to creeping, with a stature height of up to 10 centimeters. The shoots lying on the ground often form roots. The yellowish-green to glaucoma and linear-lanceolate to inverted-lanceolate, sometimes almost stalk-round, leaves are 1.5 to 6 inches long and 0.4 to 1.3 inches wide.
The inflorescence is up to 10 to 25 centimeters high and consists of 1 to 3 dichasias . The gray-green inflorescence stalk has a diameter of 3 millimeters at the base. The flower stalk becomes about 5 millimeters long. The sepals are 3 to 4 millimeters and the corolla 15 millimeters long. The yellowish green tube is 7 millimeters long and 4 millimeters in diameter and is studded with purple dots. The turned back corolla lobes are 11 to 12 millimeters long. The stamens protrude up to 14 millimeters. The orange nectar flakes are rounded and 0.75 × 0.75 millimeters in size.
Distribution and systematics
Cotyledon papillaris is widespread in the South African provinces of the North Cape , Western Cape and Eastern Cape in the Succulent Karoo .
The first description by Carl von Linné the Younger was published in 1782.
Synonyms are Cotyledon gracilis Haw. (1819), Cotyledon acaulon Walther ex Steudel (1840), Cotyledon meyeri Harvey (1862), Cotyledon papillaris var. Robusta Schönland & Baker f. (1902), Cotyledon glutinosa Schönland (1904), Cotyledon glandulosa N.E.Br. (1913), Cotyledon muirii Schönland (1915), Cotyledon jacobseniana von Poellnitz (1936) and Cotyledon pseudogracilis von Poellnitz (1936).
Several cultivars are known:
- 'Gray Mat', on the prostrate to creeping shoots, gray-green, linearly inverted lanceolate leaves are formed that are 2.5 × 0.8 centimeters in size. They are edged reddish in the upper third; comes from near Zuurberg in the Eastern Cape Province
- 'Strandfontein', small, rounded shrubs are formed with prostrate to upright shoots.
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 28 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Supplementum plantarum Systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, Generum plantarum editionis sextae, et Specierum plantarum editionis secunda . Braunschweig 1782, p. 242 ( online ).
