Pachypodium bispinosum
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Pachypodium bispinosum is a species of the genus Pachypodium in the dog venom family(Apocynaceae).
description
Pachypodium bispinosum is a perennial plant with a thick, fleshy, freely branched trunk , which is covered with paired, up to 2 cm long thorns . The edges of the leaves are curled down.
The flowers have a broad, bell-shaped tube with a length of 1.5 to 2 cm and a diameter of 4 to 8 mm. The corolla tube is colored red inside and out and is covered with wide, bent back, white colored corolla lobes, which are rounded and 7 mm long.
The seeds are 4 to 5 mm long and dark brown.
Systematics
The first description of the species as Echites bispinosa was published in 1782 by Carl von Linné . Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle placed the species in the genus Pachypodium in 1844 .
Nomenclatory synonyms are Echites bispinosa L.f. , Pachypodium glabrum G.Don and Pachypodium tuberosum var. Loddigesii A.DC.
The species is close to the species Pachypodium succulentum . The distribution areas of the two species overlap, and hybrids between the two species that are viable but sterile have rarely been found.
Occurrence
The species is widespread in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and grows at heights of up to 600 m.
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literature
- GD Rowley: Pachypodium . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Dicotyledons . Springer Verlag, 2002, ISBN 978-3-540-41966-2 , pp. 12-13.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carl von Linné: Supplementum plantarum Systematis vegetabilium editionis decimae tertiae, Generum plantarum editionis sextae, et Specierum plantarum editionis secunda . Braunschweig 1782, p. 167 online at botanicus.org, accessed on October 2, 2018.
- ↑ Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis Volume 8, p. 424, Paris 1844 online at biodiversitylibrary.org, accessed on October 2, 2018.
