Tylecodon longipes

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Tylecodon longipes
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Kalanchoideae
Genre : Tylecodon
Type : Tylecodon longipes
Scientific name
Tylecodon longipes
van Jaarsv. & G. Will.

Tylecodon longipes is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).

description

Tylecodon longipes grows as a very small, strongly branched plant and forms mats that are up to 3 centimeters high and 20 centimeters in diameter. The shoots, which are up to 2 centimeters thick, are provided with a silver-gray bark that breaks open to reveal the green tissue below. 1 to 4 leaves are formed per shoot. They stand together and spread out and grow to be 1.5 to 3.5 inches long and 1 to 2 inches wide. The blade is lanceolate or broadly ovate to spatulate, rarely also 3-lobed. Sometimes it is shaped somewhat runny, at the base it is wedge-shaped and the tip of the leaf is blunt. The leaves are covered with glandular hairs and have a short stem that is up to 5 millimeters long. There are supporting sheet-like formed pfriemliche sheets which are long to 1 millimeter and fall soon.

The inflorescence is formed by thyrses up to 3 centimeters high , each with 1 to 3 monochasias . The peduncle becomes 1 to 2 centimeters long and is covered with glandular hairs. The single flowers stand upright on a 7 millimeter long peduncle. The triangular sepals are up to 2 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide. The tubular corolla tube is 15 millimeters long. The cylindrical to funnel-shaped tube is green-white and the elongated tips are 4 to 6 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The stamens protruding from the tube are 10 millimeters long. The diagonally rectangular nectar flakes are 0.7 millimeters in size.

Systematics and distribution

Tylecodon longipes is widespread in South Africa in the Northern Cape Province in the Succulent Karoo . It was first described in 1995 by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld and Graham Williamson .

literature

  • E. van Jaarsveld: Tylecodon . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Sukkulenten-Lexikon Volume 4 Crassulaceae (Dickblattgewächse) Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , p. 375.

Individual evidence

  1. Aloe. Journal of the South African Aloe and Succulent Society. Pretoria, Volume 31, Volume 3/4, 1995, pp. 56-58

Web links

  • Photos of plants in culture and in their natural habitat