Tylecodon atropurpureus
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Tylecodon atropurpureus is a plant of the genus Tylecodon in the family of Crassulaceae (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon atropurpureus grows from an elongated, underground caudex , which reaches dimensions of 15 × 5 cm, as a poorly branched succulent plant. The tuberous roots have a peeling gray bark. The two to six shoots are 0.5 to 1 cm long, up to 0.7 cm in diameter and have short, trimmed phyllopodia . The crowded, flat leaves are hairy with little glandular hair. The egg-shaped to spatulate leaf blade is 8 cm long and 6 cm wide. It is wedge-shaped at the base and pointed or blunt towards the tip.
The inflorescences form 15 to 37 cm long, upright thyrses with 2 to 4 monochasias , which in turn end in 8 to 20 upright and spreading single flowers. The stalk of the inflorescence is hairy and up to 28 cm long. The flower stalk is 10 to 16 mm long. The calyx is up to 4.5 mm long and has linear tips up to 3 mm long. The tubular corolla is 12 to 14 mm long and 5 mm wide. It is pale green in color and hairy glandular to downy. The extended and later suddenly bent back tips are up to 3 mm long and colored dark black-purple on the upper side.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon atropurpureus is widespread in the South African province of North Cape in Namaqualand . The first description was in 1989 by Peter Vincent Bruyns.
literature
- E. van Jaarsveld: Tylecodon . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Sukkulenten-Lexikon Volume 4 Crassulaceae (Dickblattgewächse) Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , p. 371.
Individual evidence
- ^ In: South African Journal of Botany . Volume 55, Number 3, 1989 pp. 332-333.
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