Gasteria glomerata
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Gasteria glomerata is a species of the genus Gasteria in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Gasteria glomerata grows without a trunk, is prostrate to upright and reaches a height of 1.5 to 4 centimeters and is 2 to 8 centimeters wide. It sprouts from the base and forms dense, spherical groups with a diameter of up to 20 centimeters. The ribbon-shaped to broadly egg-shaped leaves are arranged in two rows on the shoot. The inner ones are spread out upright, the outer ones spreading or bent back. The glauke , not spotted leaf blade is 1.5 to 5 inches long and 1.5 to 2.5 inches wide. The rough epidermis is tiny warty. The entire leaf margin is tiny notched and warty in the upper quarter. The tip of the leaf is truncated or bluntly rounded and has an attached tip. Young leaves are two-lined, ribbon-shaped, initially ascending, later spreading or bent back, rough and only slightly or indistinctly warty.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upright inflorescence is a panicle . It reaches a length of 12 to 20 centimeters. The reddish pink flower envelope is 20 to 27 millimeters long. Your bulbous part is spherical to spherical-ellipsoidal. It extends over a little more than half the length of the flower envelope and has a diameter of 6 to 9 millimeters (rarely up to 10 millimeters). At the top it is constricted into a tube with a diameter of 4 millimeters.
The flowering time is spring.
Fruits and seeds
The fruits are 16 millimeters long and 8 millimeters wide. They contain seeds 3 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide .
Systematics and distribution
Gasteria glomerata is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape in thickets on almost vertical, south-facing rock faces.
The first description by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld was published in 1991.
proof
literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Gasteria glomerata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 205 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst J. van Jaarsveld: Gasteria glomerata van Jaarsveld sp. nov. In: Bradleya . Volume 9, 1991, pp. 100-104.
Web links
- Gasteria glomerata at plantzafrica.com
- Gasteria glomerata in the Red List of South African Plants