Cotyledon velutina
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Cotyledon velutina is a species of the genus Cotyledon in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Cotyledon velutina grows as an upright, succulent shrub with a height of up to 300 centimeters. The shoots woody from the base have a purple-brown bark that flakes off on older plants. They reach a diameter of up to 45 millimeters. The green or lanceolate, flat to top concave leaves are hairy or glabrous and are 5 to 13.5 inches long and 2 to 8 inches wide. The base of the leaves is wedge-shaped and eyelet, the gray-green, sharp edge of the leaves merges into the stem and runs down it. The tips of the leaves are blunt and have little tips.
The inflorescence is up to 60 centimeters high and consists of 3 to 5 dichasias with 5 to 10 reddish, yellow and bare single flowers each. The peduncle has a diameter of 3 to 4 millimeters. The corolla is tubular. The cylindrical tube is yellowish and up to 17 millimeters long. The corolla lobes are spread out or bent back. The stamens protrude up to 7 millimeters. The anthers are colored yellow and are 2.5 millimeters in diameter. The oblong nectar flakes are yellow and 0.6 to 1.0 millimeters in size.
distribution
Cotyledon velutina is widespread in the South African provinces of the Eastern Cape and in southern KwaZulu-Natal in subtropical thickets.
Taxonomy
The first description as Cotyledon velutina by Joseph Dalton Hooker was published in 1868.
Synonyms are Cotyledon beckeri Schönland & Baker f. (1902) and Cotyledon mollis Schönland (1915).
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 29 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Selmar Schönland, Edmund Gilbert Baker: Some South African Species of Cotyledon . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 40, London 1902, p. 21 ( online ).
