Pachypodium lealii
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Pachypodium lealii in Namibia |
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Pachypodium lealii is a succulent plant of the genus Pachypodium in the family of the dog venom plants (Apocynaceae).
description
Pachypodium lealii grows with very different shapes and reaches heights of up to 6 meters. The silver-gray trunk is massively thickened and ends in warty shoots . There are three spread thorns , of which the lateral 2 to 4 centimeters long. The shiny foliage leaves are distributed along the shoots and more clustered at their tips. The leaf blade is 1.5 to 10 inches long and 1.2 to 4 inches wide. Their edges are slightly wavy.
The white, platter-shaped flowers are in small clusters and are 2.5 to 4 centimeters long. Their corolla lobes, which are wavy on the edge, are 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long. The fruits reach at diameters of 1 centimeter diameter lengths of 7-10 centimeters. The 9 millimeter large seeds contained therein are narrowly ovate.
Systematics and distribution
Pachypodium lealii is common in Angola , Namibia , Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The first description was in 1869 by Friedrich Welwitsch . The following subspecies can be distinguished:
- Pachypodium lealii subsp. lealii
- Pachypodium lealii subsp. saundersii (NEBr.) GDRowley . Some authors also regard it as a separate species: Pachypodium saundersii N.E. Br.
The subspecies Pachypodium lealii subsp. lealii grows upright and is large. Its leaves are finely tomentose on both sides. The subspecies Pachypodium lealii subsp. saundersii grows bushy to prostrate. In comparison with Pachypodium lealii subsp. lealii less hairy and the flowers somewhat smaller.
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Dicotyledons (dicotyledons) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-8001-3915-4 , pp. 10 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 27, Number 1, London 1869, p. 45.
