Lenophyllum

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lenophyllum
Lenophyllum texanum

Lenophyllum texanum

Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Sempervivoideae
Tribe : Sedeae
Genre : Lenophyllum
Scientific name
Lenophyllum
rose

Lenophyllum is a genus of plants fromthe thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae). The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Greek words "lenos" for trough , tub and "φύλλον" (phyllon) for leaf and refers to the often longitudinally channeled leaves. That is why the genus is sometimes called trough leaf .

description

The species of the genus Lenophyllum are bare perennial herbaceous plants with thickened or fibrous roots . The alternate arranged in pairs a few basal leaves are upwardly smaller and are farther apart. They are thick, often rutted and elliptical to rounded or rhombic in shape. Their leaf tips are pointed to rounded.

The terminal inflorescence is a cyme or consists of a few, multi-flowered coils or forms a narrow panicle. The almost sessile flowers are five-fold and obdiplostemon . The upright or ascending, almost identical sepals are lanceolate to inverted and about as long as the open corolla. The yellow or yellowish petals are also lanceolate to inverted and between 5 and 8 millimeters long.

The fruit is a multi- seeded follicle fruit . The brown seeds it contains are ellipsoidal and striped lengthways.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Lenophyllum is common in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico in the United States . The first description was made by Joseph Nelson Rose in 1904. According to Reid Venable Moran (1916-2010), the genus Lenophyllum consists of the following species:

proof

literature

  • Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 188-189 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walter Erhardt among others: The great pikeperch. Encyclopedia of Plant Names . Volume 2, page 1505. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008. ISBN 978-3-8001-5406-7
  2. ^ Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . Volume 47, p. 159, Washington (DC) 1904.
  3. ^ Reid Venable Moran: Lenophyllum . In: Urs Eggli: Succulents Lexicon Volume 4. Crassulaceae (thick-leaf plants) . 2003, pp. 188-189

Web links

Commons : Lenophyllum  - collection of images, videos and audio files