Synaptophyllum juttae

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Synaptophyllum juttae
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family : Midday flowers (Aizoaceae)
Subfamily : Mesembryanthemoideae
Genre : Synaptophyllum
Type : Synaptophyllum juttae
Scientific name of the  genus
Synaptophyllum
NEBr.
Scientific name of the  species
Synaptophyllum juttae
( Dinter & A.Berger ) NEBr.

Synaptophyllum juttae is the only plant of monotypic genus Synaptophyllum from the family of aizoaceae (Aizoaceae).

description

Synaptophyllum juttae is a recumbent to prostrate, annual , herbaceous plant that branches out from its base and has fibrous roots . The herbaceous internodes contain additional vascular bundles in their bark . Your epidermis is smooth. The flat, rounded or oval leaves are arranged cross-opposite. The leaves of a pair of leaves have grown together to form a disc or a cone. The upper leaves are significantly smaller and free. There are no enlarged central water-storing cells. The epidermis of the deciduous leaves is smooth or contains small mesomorphic bladder cells on the edges . The cuticle folds form a network-like structure.

The flowers form cymes . They have a diameter of up to 15 millimeters. The four sepals are fused into a short tube. The petals are white and free. There are no thread-like staminodes , the nectaries are narrow.

The four-compartment capsule fruits have flap wings. The capsule fruits contain whitish seeds with a smooth seed coat .

Systematics and distribution

Synaptophyllum juttae is widespread in Namibia in the Lüderitz- Süd district in the fog zone of the Namib .

The genus was first described in 1925 by Nicholas Edward Brown . The genus Synaptophyllum belongs to the subfamily Mesembryanthemoideae within the family of aizoaceae . The first description of Synaptophyllum juttae as Mesembryanthemum juttae was made in 1914 by Moritz Kurt Dinter and Alwin Berger , who chose the species name after Jutta Dinter, the wife of Kurt Dinter. Nicholas Edward Brown placed them in the genus Synaptophyllum in 1928 .

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literature

  • Gideon Smith et al. a. (Ed.): Mesembs of the World: Illustrated Guide to a Remarkable Succulent Group . Briza Publications, 1998, ISBN 1-875093-13-3 , pp. 54 .
  • Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41723-0 , pp. 314 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gardeners' Chronicle . 3rd episode, London 1925, Volume 78, p. 412.
  2. ^ Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 50, Supplement, Leipzig 1914, p. 589
  3. ↑ Gardeners' Chronicle . 3rd episode, London 1928, volume 84, p. 254.

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