Tylecodon bleckiae
| Tylecodon bleckiae | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tylecodon bleckiae |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Tylecodon bleckiae | ||||||||||||
| G. Will. |
Tylecodon bleckiae is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon bleckiae grows as a succulent dwarf shrub from an elongated, spread out and bulbous base that becomes 7 cm long and 3 cm wide. The plants reach heights of up to 8 cm. The numerous and often interwoven shoots are mostly unbranched and gray in color with raised black scales. The three standing in terminal rosettes to seven sheets are 6 to 8 mm long and 3 to 4 mm wide. The elliptical leaf blade has a central furrow on the upper side, is dull green in color and covered with glandular hair.
The inflorescences are formed from 1 to 2 dichasias , which stand on upright and up to 10 cm long inflorescence stalks. The egg-shaped to triangular sepals are covered with glandular downy hairs and are 2.5 mm long and 1.8 mm wide. The cylindrical crown is 12 mm long and 4.5 mm wide. It is light green in color and ends with expanded and later bent back tips. The egg-shaped tips are pointed, colored light red, covered with dark pink to red lines and have white edges. The narrow, egg-shaped nectar scales are sanded and creamy yellow in color.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon bleckiae is widespread in the South African province of North Cape on the lower Orange River and in southern Namibia in the Succulent Karoo . The first description was in 1998 by Graham Williamson. The species was previously confused with Tylecodon buchholzianus .
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
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal. Volume 70, Los Angeles 1998, pp. 127-128.
