Tylecodon decipiens
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Tylecodon decipiens is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon decipiens grows dwarfish, with a bulbous base as a strongly branched shrub and forms mats. The pale gray-green shoots are 7 to 10 millimeters in diameter, smooth and have no phyllopodia. They are closely intertwined and form dense cushions with a diameter of up to 20 centimeters. The obverse lanceolate, flat and bare leaves are 5 to 14 millimeters long and 6 to 10 millimeters wide. The leaf surface is flat to furrowed and the tip blunt.
The inflorescences form thyrsen up to 4 centimeters high with 1 to 2 monochasias , which in turn end in 1 to 2 upright single flowers. The flower stalk becomes 1 centimeter long. The triangular, lanceolate sepals are 2 to 3 millimeters long. The tubular and white to pink colored corolla-tube is 9 to 10 millimeters long and 4 millimeters in diameter. The extended tips are later bent back.
The species is very similar to Tylecodon schaeferianus .
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon decipiens is widespread in the south of Namibia and in South Africa in the province of Northern Cape in the succulent Karoo . It was first described in 1978 by Helmut Richard Tölken .
literature
- E. van Jaarsveld: Tylecodon . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Sukkulenten-Lexikon Volume 4 Crassulaceae (Dickblattgewächse) Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , p. 373.
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Richard Tölken: New taxa and new combinations in Cotyledon and allied genera . In: Bothalia . Volume 12, Issue 3, p. 379, 1978 ( PDF ).
Web links
- Photos from the natural site