Crassula deceptor
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Crassula deceptor is a species of the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet deceptor comes from Latin , means 'swindler' and refers to the earlier confusion of the plants with the species Crassula deltoidea .
description
The dwarf, compact and upright growing plants stand solitary or are only slightly branched. They are up to 6 centimeters high and have a fibrous root. The 5 to 8 millimeter thick shoots are covered with dense, brick-like leaves that surround the stalk . The leaves form a four-cornered elongated body with a diameter of 2.5 centimeters, which tapers towards the tip. The ovate-triangular to broadly uniform, dull gray-green leaves are 7 to 18 millimeters wide and 3 to 15 millimeters long and have a warty surface. The leaf margins are entire, the surface concave and the underside convex, sometimes somewhat boat-like and somewhat keeled at the tip.
The inflorescence is composed of stalked and rounded thyrses and has a size of 2 × 2 centimeters. The peduncle is up to 8 inches long. The oblong triangular, blunt to pointed sepals of the flowers are up to 1.5 millimeters long and ciliate at the edges. The tubular, cream-colored or yellow corolla is up to 2.5 millimeters long. The elongated, elliptical, blunt or pointed corolla lobes are fused at the base. The stamens are brown.
Distribution and systematics
The succulent species grows in the south of Namibia and in the South African provinces of the North Cape and Western Cape in the Succulent Karoo in plains with quartz pebbles and on gravelly and rocky slopes.
The first description as Crassula deceptor by Edmund Gilbert Baker was published in 1902.
Synonyms are Crassula cornuta Schönland & Baker f. (1902), Crassula arta Schönland (1929) and Crassula deceptrix Schönland (1929).
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literature
- E. van Jaarsveld: Succulent lexicon . Ed .: Urs Eggli. tape 4 Crassulaceae (thick leaf family). Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 46 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 62.
- ^ Edmund Gilbert Baker: New Crassulas from South Africa . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 40, London 1902, p. 285 ( online ).
