Malephora smithii

Malephora smithii
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Midday flowers (Aizoaceae)
Subfamily :	Ruschioideae
Genre :	Malephora
Type :	Malephora smithii
Scientific name
	Malephora smithii
	( L. Bolus ) HEK Hartmann

Malephora smithii is a species of the family of aizoaceae (Aizoaceae). It occurs in South Africa .

features

The upright, sharply keeled leaves are semi-stemmed at the bottom, widened at the top and rounded when viewed from the side. They become 20 to 30 mm long and up to 6 mm thick. The leaf sheath is 4 mm long. The flower stalks are 15 mm long and the single flowers have a diameter of 42 mm. The calyx consists of four sepals . The petals are ocher. The base of the flower is lighter, the flower envelope is copper-colored. The stamens are saffron yellow and white at the base. The nectarium is ring-shaped.

distribution

Well-known occurrences are in the Hopetown region in the Northern Cape Province and at Fauresmith in the Free State Province .

Ecology and habitat

Malephora smithii forms dense, herbaceous, creeping mats 3.5 to 4 cm in height. The species grows in communities with low shrubs on clay soils in the Karoo Plain, where rains occur in March, November or February.

Systematics

Malephora smithii was described as Hymenocyclus smithii by Harriet Margaret Louisa Bolus in 1927 . In 2001, Heidrun Hartmann placed it in the genus Malephora . The species epithet honors the South African botanist Christo Albertyn Smith .

status

Malephora smithii is not on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . In the Red List of South African Plant Species, the species is classified as “not endangered” ( least concern ).

literature

Urs Eggli , HEK Hartmann: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae , 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, Berlin, 2017, ISBN 978-3-662-49258-1 , pp. 819-820 (p. 141 in the first edition of Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae F – Z from 2001).

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names , Springer Berlin - Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 223
^ D. Raimondo, L. von Staden, W. Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama: Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25th South African National Biodiversity Institute , Pretoria, 2009
^ Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names , Springer Berlin - Heidelberg, 2004, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 223

[2] D. Raimondo, L. von Staden, W. Foden, JE Victor, NA Helme, RC Turner, DA Kamundi, PA Manyama: Red List of South African Plants. Strelitzia 25th South African National Biodiversity Institute , Pretoria, 2009

[3] Red List of South African Plants