Crassula mataikona
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Crassula mataikona is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the thick leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Crassula mataikona is a weak, slender herbaceous plant. Its 5 to 7.5 millimeter long shoots are not or only sparsely branched. The leaves stand together in distant pairs and are fused at their base. The ovate-oblong or linear leaf blade is 2.1 to 4.2 millimeters long.
The few, four-fold flowers are very tiny and sessile or stalked . The egg-shaped, pointed petals are longer than the egg-shaped, pointed sepals . The color is not described. One or two seeds are formed per carpel .
Systematics and distribution
Crassula mataikona is common in New Zealand .
The first description by Anthony Peter Druce was published in 1987. Synonyms are Tillaea debilis Hook.f. (1852) and Crassula debilis (Hook.f.) APDruce & Given (1984, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).
Crassula mataikona is known only from a few specimens. In the original description, the species is compared with Tillaea verticillaris (a synonym of Crassula sieberiana ).
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula mataikona . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 58-59 .
Individual evidence
- ^ In: HE Connor, E. Edgar: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960-1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983-1986 . In: New Zealand Journal of Botany . Volume 25, number 1, 1987, p. 128 ( doi: 10.1080 / 0028825X.1987.10409961 ).
Web links
- Photos of Crassula mataikona