Tylecodon ellaphieae
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Tylecodon ellaphieae is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The epithet of art honors the South African artist Ellaphie Ward-Hilhorst .
description
Tylecodon ellaphieae grows dwarfish and sparsely branched, is 1 to 6 centimeters high and has a bulbous base that is up to 3 centimeters in diameter. The two to eight ascending shoots are gray in color and up to 6 centimeters long. They have trimmed phyllopodia up to 2 millimeters long. On older shoots, the yellowish gray bark comes off in flakes. Shoots with leaves are 5 millimeters in diameter. The compressed and spreading leaves are 2.3 to 4.5 inches long and 1 to 2.8 inches wide. The lanceolate or ovate to spatulate leaf blade is covered with glandular hairs and has a groove on the top at the base. The leaf base is wedge-shaped and the tip is pointed or blunt. The persistent bracts are subpulate and are up to 2 millimeters long.
The inflorescence is formed from up to 8 centimeters high, short and flat-topped thyrses . These have 1 to 3 monochasia , which in turn end in 1 to 3 upright single flowers. The flower stalk becomes 5 millimeters long and is covered with glandular hair. The tubular and light green colored corolla tube is up to 15 millimeters long and 4 millimeters in diameter. It is enlarged towards the throat. The white and spread out lobes are 6 millimeters long and 3 millimeters wide. They are pointed and later bent back.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon ellaphieae is widespread in South Africa in the Northern Cape Province in the Succulent Karoo on steep sandstone cliffs. It was first described in 1989 by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld . A synonym is Tylecodon cremnophilus 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. 373.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tylecodon ellaphieae. Retrieved December 29, 2016 .
- ↑ The Flowering Plants of Africa Volume 50, Issue 2, 1989.
Web links
- Description and photos at the Kirstenboch National Botanical Garden
- Brief description and photos at bihrmann.com