Tylecodon nolteei
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Tylecodon nolteei is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon nolteei grows as a little branched plant and is up to 7 centimeters high. The roots are fibrous. The single, thickened main shoot reaches 2 centimeters in diameter. The olive-brown to brownish shoots have a smooth, somewhat peeling bark. Two to five sessile and petiolate to broadly elliptical leaves are formed, which are 10 to 25 millimeters long and 7 to 22 millimeters wide. They are hairy and glaucoma colored with reddish and translucent markings on the leaf blade.
The inflorescence consists of upright and up to 4 centimeters long thyrsen that carry two or more monochasia and remain on the plant for a long time after flowering. The flower stalk is 3 to 15 millimeters long. The triangular sepals are hairy and 2 to 3 millimeters long. The upright and tubular corolla tube is covered with downy hair and is 12 to 13 millimeters long and 4 millimeters in diameter. It is cream-colored to light pink in color. The expanded corolla lobes are 1.5 millimeters long. The blunt nectar flakes are egg-shaped.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon nolteei is widespread in South Africa in the Northern Cape Province in the Succulent Karoo on slate cliffs. The first description was in 2001 by John Jacob Lavranos .
In the protologue a distant relationship with Tylecodon reticulatus is mentioned.
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
- ↑ Piante Grasse Volume 20, Number 3, p. 125, 2001
Web links
- Photos of plants on the natural site