Crassula hedbergii

Crassula hedbergii
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family :	Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily :	Crassuloideae
Genre :	Thick leaf ( Crassula )
Type :	Crassula hedbergii
Scientific name
	Crassula hedbergii
	Wickens & M.Bywater

Crassula hedbergii is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the family of thick leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The specific epithet hedbergii honors the Swedish botanist Karl Olov Hedberg (1923–2007) from Uppsala, a specialist in East African vegetation.

description

Crassula hedbergii is similar to Crassula granvikii . The flower stalk is stronger, but only reaches a length of about 1 millimeter. Six to seven, rarely four or five seeds are formed per carpel . The elongated seeds are 0.83 to 0.95 millimeters long and 0.25 to 0.35 millimeters wide.

Systematics and distribution

Crassula hedbergii is common in Yemen and Ethiopia .

The first description by Gerald Ernest Wickens and Marie Bywater was published in 1980.

A synonym is Bulliarda abyssinica A.Rich. (1848).

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula hedbergii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 54 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 105.
↑ Gerald Ernest Wickens, Marie Bywater: Seed studies in Crassula subgen. Disporocarpa. Studies in the Crassulaceae for the 'Flora of Tropical East Africa': I . In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 34, Number 4, 1980, p. 631 ( JSTOR 4119060 ).
↑ Achille Richard: Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae seu Enumeratio Plantarum hucusque in plerisque Abyssiniae . Volume 1, Paris 1848, pp. 306–307 ( online )

Web links

Herbarium evidence (type) of Bulliarda abyssinica
Herbarium specimen (synType) of Bulliarda abyssinica

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 105.

[2] Gerald Ernest Wickens, Marie Bywater: Seed studies in Crassula subgen. Disporocarpa. Studies in the Crassulaceae for the 'Flora of Tropical East Africa': I . In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 34, Number 4, 1980, p. 631 ( JSTOR 4119060 ).

[3] Achille Richard: Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae seu Enumeratio Plantarum hucusque in plerisque Abyssiniae . Volume 1, Paris 1848, pp. 306–307 ( online )