Pachypodium succulentum
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Succulentum Pachypodium a plant is art from the genus Pachypodium in the family of Hundsgiftgewächse (Apocynaceae).
description
Pachypodium succulentum is a perennial plant that grows as a low, branched subshrub and arises from a beet-like, more or less underground caudex with a diameter of up to 15 cm. The twigs are 20 to 60 cm long and 5 to 12 mm thick and have sparsely branched branches, at first they are tomentose, later the brown bark shows . The plant is covered with pairs of up to 25 mm long thorns , rarely one or two additional thorns are above the buds. The leaves are sparsely distributed, they are narrow, elongated-lanceolate to inversely lanceolate and are 1.5 to 6 cm long and 0.2 to 1 cm wide.
The flowers are in small groups at the tip of the branches, they are 1 to 2 cm long and 1.8 to 4 cm in diameter. The corolla tube has a diameter of 3 to 4 mm. The species is very variable in size and color of the flowers, the colors range from white and pink to various striped variants and even purple.
The fruits are 4 to 6 cm long, the seeds are egg-shaped and 5 mm in size.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 18.
Occurrence
The species is distributed in the South African provinces of the North Cape and Western Cape , as well as in the north as far as the Free State .
Systematics
The first description of the species as Echites succulenta was published in 1782 by Carl von Linné . Robert Sweet placed the species in the genus Pachypodium in 1830 .
Nomenclatory synonyms are Echites succulenta L.f. , Pachypodium tuberosum Lindley , Pachypodium tomentosum G.Don , Pachypodium griquense L.Bolus and Pachypodium jasminiflorum L.Bolus .
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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. 15-16.
Individual evidence
- ^ Pachypodium succulentum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ 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 3, 2018.
- ↑ Sweet's Hortus Britannicus Volume 2, p. 594, London 1830 online at biodiversitylibrary.org, accessed on October 3, 2018.
