Crassula solieri

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Crassula solieri
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Crassuloideae
Genre : Thick leaf ( Crassula )
Type : Crassula solieri
Scientific name
Crassula solieri
( Gay ) F. Meigen

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

description

Crassula solieri is an erect to erect ends creeping plant with shoots up to 5.5 centimeters in length. Their lanceolate leaves are 2.4 to 3.3 millimeters long.

A four-fold flower is formed per node . The flower stalk is 1.2 to 2.6 millimeters (rarely from 0.6 millimeters) long. The triangular petals are 0.6 to 0.9 millimeters long and 0.5 to 0.8 millimeters wide. Their 0.9 to 1.3 millimeters long and 0.5 to 0.6 millimeters wide sepals are also triangular. They are longer than the petals. The thread-like spatula-like nectar flakes are 0.65 millimeters long. 9 to 14  seeds are formed per carpel . The elongated ellipsoidal seeds are reddish brown, smooth and shiny or indistinctly longitudinally ribbed. They are about 0.32 to 0.42 millimeters (rarely up to 0.55 millimeters) long and 0.15 to 0.19 millimeters (rarely up to 0.21 millimeters) wide.

Systematics and distribution

Crassula solieri is distributed in the western United States in the states of Wyoming , Nevada , Texas , Oregon and California as well as in central Chile . The species is terrestrial or subaquatic in seasonal watering places.

The first description as Tillaea solieri by Claude Gay was published in 1847. Friedrich Carl Meigen placed the species in the genus Crassula in 1893 .

Synonyms are Tillaea andicola Phil. (1872) and Crassula andicola (Phil.) F. Meigen (1893).

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literature

  • Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula solieri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 78 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flora Chilena . Volume 2, Number 4, 1847, p. 530 ( online ).
  2. ^ Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 17, Numbers 3-4, 1893, p. 239 ( online ).

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