Pachypodium

Pachypodium
	Pachypodium rosulatum , Madagascar
Systematics
	Euasterids I
Order :	Enzianartige (Gentianales)
Family :	Dog poison family (Apocynaceae)
Subfamily :	Apocynoideae
Tribe :	Malouetieae
Genre :	Pachypodium
Scientific name
	Pachypodium
	Lindl.

Pachypodium is a genus of plants in the subfamily Apocynoideae withinthe dog venom family (Apocynaceae). The translation of Pachypodium is something like "fat foot". The Madagascar palm ( Pachypodium lamerei ), also called thick-footed, ispopularas a houseplant because it is very robust.

description

Illustration from the genus description from 1830 - Pachypodium tuberosum

Thorns from Pachypodium lamerei

Pachypodium styles are succulent plants with water-storing stems . Some reach heights of up to 6 meters. In the growing season there are simple leaves at the tips of the shoots , which fall off in the dry season . In the leaf axils all types with too thorns remodeled stipules reinforced. The thorns are either in pairs or in threes.

The hermaphrodite, five-fold, radial symmetry flowers are relatively large. The five pink to white or yellow petals are fused.

ecology

The species usually need more than ten years from germination to the first flowering.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Pachypodium was established in 1830 by John Lindley . As a model type was Pachypodium tuberosum set. Today the species is synonymous with Pachypodium succulentum .

A synonym of the genus is Belonites E. Mey .

Pachypodium geayi , in Longwood Gardens

Pachypodium lamerei

Pachypodium lealii , inflorescence

Pachypodium namaquanum , habitus in the Richtersveld National Park

The genus is distributed in South Africa , Namibia and Madagascar . It includes the following types:

Pachypodium ambongense Poiss. : Northwest Madagascar
Pachypodium baronii Cost. & Bois : Northern Madagascar
Pachypodium bispinosum (Lf) A.DC. : Eastern Cape
Pachypodium brevicaule Baker : Central Madagascar: With the subspecies:
- Pachypodium brevicaule subsp. brevicaule
- Pachypodium brevicaule subsp. leucoxanthum Lüthy
Pachypodium decaryi Poiss. : Northern Madagascar
Pachypodium densiflorum Baker : Central Madagascar. With the varieties:
- Pachypodium densiflorum var. Brevicalyx H.Perrier
- Pachypodium densiflorum var. Densiflorum
Pachypodium eburneum Lavranos & Rapanarivo (Syn .: Pachypodium rosulatum var. Eburneum (Lavranos & Rapanarivo) GDRowley ): Central Madagascar
Pachypodium enigmaticum Pavelka, Prokes, V.Vlk, Lavranos, Zídek & Ramav. : The species first described in 2014 occurs in Madagascar.
Pachypodium geayi Cost. & Bois : Southwest Madagascar
Pachypodium × hojnyi Halda = Pachypodium densiflorum subsp. densiflorum × Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. rosulatum
Pachypodium horombense Poiss. : South-Central Madagascar
Pachypodium inopinatum Lavranos (Syn .: Pachypodium rosulatum var. Inopinatum (Lavranos) GDRowley ): North-central Madagascar
Madagascar palm ( Pachypodium lamerei Drake ; Syn .: Pachypodium lamerei var. Ramosum (Costantin & Bois) Pichon ): Southern and south-central Madagascar.
Pachypodium lealii Welw. : Southwest Angola to northern Namibia .
Pachypodium menabeum Leandri : Western Madagascar
Pachypodium mikea Lüthy : West-Southwest Madagascar
Pachypodium namaquanum (Wyley ex Harv.) Welw. : Southern Namibia to South Africa.
Pachypodium × rauhii Halda = Pachypodium brevicaule × Pachypodium densiflorum
Pachypodium rosulatum Baker : With the subspecies:
- Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. bemarahense Lüthy & Lavranos : Western Madagascar
- Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. bicolor (Lavranos & Rapanarivo) Lüthy : Western Madagascar
- Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. cactipes (K.Schum.) Lüthy : Southeastern Madagascar
- Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. gracilius (H.Perrier) Lüthy : South-central Madagascar
- Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. makayense (Lavranos) Lüthy : South-central Madagascar
- Pachypodium rosulatum subsp. rosulatum : Northern Madagascar
Pachypodium rutenbergianum Vatke (Syn .: Pachypodium rutenbergianum var. Meridionale H.Perrier ): Northern and Western Madagascar
Pachypodium saundersii N.E.Br. (Syn .: Pachypodium lealii subsp. Saundersii (NEBr) GDRowley. ): South-tropical and Southern Africa.
Pachypodium sofiense (Poiss.) H.Perrier (Syn .: Pachypodium rutenbergianum var. Sofiense Poiss. ): North-central and west-central Madagascar
Pachypodium succulentum (Lf) Sweet : Southern Africa
Pachypodium windsorii Poiss. (Syn .: Pachypodium baronii var. Windsorii (Poiss.) Pichon ): Northern Madagascar

photos

Pachypodium baronii , in the Botanical Garden of Neuchâtel in Switzerland

Pachypodium lealii ,
habitus in the natural habitat
Pachypodium horombense , in the botanical garden
Pachypodium saundersii , in the Washington Botanical Gardens

Pachypodium rosulatum var. Gracilius , Madagascar

Individual evidence

^ Edwards's Botanical Register Volume 16, London 1830, Plate 1321 ( online )
^ GD Rowley: Pachypodium . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 2 : Dicotyledonous plants (dicotyledons) . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , p. 8 .
↑ Urs Eggli (Ed.): Succulents Lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 8-12 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Pachypodium. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 1, 2017.
↑ Jonas M. Lüthy: Pachypodium mikea, a new arborescent species from Madagascar , In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 77, Number 4, 2005, pp. 178-186 ( doi : 10.2985 / 0007-9367 (2005) 77 [178: PMANAS] 2.0.CO; 2 ).
^ Jonas M. Lüthy: Another look at the pachypodiums of Madagascar , In: Bradleya . Volume 22, 2004, p. 91.

Web links

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

Pachypodium homepage (English)

[1] Edwards's Botanical Register Volume 16, London 1830, Plate 1321 ( online )

[2] GD Rowley: Pachypodium . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 2 : Dicotyledonous plants (dicotyledons) . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , p. 8 .

[3] Urs Eggli (Ed.): Succulents Lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 8-12 .

[WCSP-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y ^z ^aa ^ab Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Pachypodium. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved November 1, 2017.

[5] Jonas M. Lüthy: Pachypodium mikea, a new arborescent species from Madagascar , In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 77, Number 4, 2005, pp. 178-186 ( doi : 10.2985 / 0007-9367 (2005) 77 [178: PMANAS] 2.0.CO; 2 ).

[6] Jonas M. Lüthy: Another look at the pachypodiums of Madagascar , In: Bradleya . Volume 22, 2004, p. 91.