Tylecodon bayeri
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Tylecodon bayeri is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon bayeri grows as a little branched, dwarf and climbing succulent from a more or less spherical and bulbous caudex with a diameter of up to 2.5 cm. It becomes up to 20 cm in diameter and the caudex has a gray-brown flaky bark. The slender, sometimes thickened shoots are up to 18 cm long and up to 2.5 mm in diameter. They are gray in color and ribbed by sloping, 1 to 2 mm long, trimmed and often bent back phyllopodia. The different leaves, which are mostly crowded at the shoot tips, are spread out or bent back. They are 1.5 to 4 cm long and 0.4 to 3.2 cm wide. The flat leaf blade, covered with glandular hairs, is narrow to broad, obovate, egg-shaped or elliptical. It is wedge-shaped at the base and blunt to pointed at the tip.
The inflorescences form up to 4 cm high, flat-topped, spread out to ascending thyrsen with 1 to 2 monochasias , which in turn end in 1 to 3 upright single flowers, the stalk is 10 mm long. The tubular and slightly widened crown towards the throat is 10 to 12 mm long and 4 mm in diameter. It is yellow to brownish in color and has short, glandular hairs. The extended tips are later bent back.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon bayeri is widespread in the South African province of Northern Cape in the Succulent Karoo . It was first described in 1988 by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld. A synonym is Tylecodon mallei G.Will.
literature
- E. van Jaarsveld: Tylecodon . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Sukkulenten-Lexikon Volume 4 Crassulaceae (Dickblattgewächse) Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , p. 372.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aloe. Journal of the South African Aloe and Succulent Society. Pretoria, Volume 25, Volume 2, 1988, pp. 30-32
Web links
- Photos of plants on the International Crassulaceae Network