Crassula aphylla

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Crassula aphylla
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Crassuloideae
Genre : Thick leaf ( Crassula )
Type : Crassula aphylla
Scientific name
Crassula aphylla
Schönland & Baker f.

Crassula aphylla is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the thick leaf family(Crassulaceae).

description

Crassula aphylla is a soft, upright, bare, reddish, annual , herbaceous , succulent plant that reaches heights of 1.5 to 3 centimeters. Their roots are fibrous. The central club-shaped shoots are larger and reach a diameter of about 1 millimeter. The leaves are reduced to a swollen, fleshy ring on the internode . Sometimes they are tiny, triangular-lanceolate, erect and up to 1.5 millimeters long. The leaf tips are pointed. The upper side of the leaf is flat, the underside convex.

The flowers, which are up to 1.5 millimeters long, are attached to a stalk that is up to 1.5 millimeters long . Your calyx is a fleshy ring with indistinct to triangular calyx tips. The white to pink corolla is cup-shaped. The ribbon-shaped, egg-shaped corolla lobes are up to 2 millimeters long. Their tips are blunt and bent back. The anthers are brown.

The flowering time is spring.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Crassula aphylla is widespread in the South African provinces of the Western Cape and North Cape on mountain peaks with fynbos in shallow rock pockets.

The first description by Selmar Schönland and Edmund Gilbert Baker was published in 1898. A nomenclature synonym is Rhopalota aphylla (Schönland & Baker f.) NEBr. (1931).

Crassula aphylla is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.

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literature

  • Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula aphylla . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 35 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 36, 1898, p. 371 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Crassula aphylla in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Foden, W. & Potter, L., 2010. Accessed December 8, 2012 Design.

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