Tylecodon pusillus
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Tylecodon pusillus is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of the thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon pusillus grows as a dwarf and branched succulent plant with a height of up to 4.5 cm from an underground, partially exposed, bulbous base with a diameter of 2.5 cm and gray, peeling bark. The short shoots are 2 cm in diameter at the base. The leaf-bearing shoots are 3 mm in diameter. The one to five leaves that are crowded at the tips of the shoots are spread out and pressed to the ground. The kidney-shaped, round to heart-shaped leaf blade is 4 to 12 mm long and 5 to 17 mm wide. It has glandular hairs with translucent hairs, wedge-shaped at the base and blunt to pointed at the tip. The top is flat to rutted, the bottom is convex.
The inflorescences form up to 7 cm long, upright thyrs with 1 to 3 monochasias . The upright flowers stand on a 5 to 6 mm long peduncle . The cylindrical corolla is pale yellow in color and 5 to 6 mm long. It is downy-haired, the yellow tips are hairy on the upper side and later bent back.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon pusillus is widespread in the South African province of North Cape in the Richtersveld . The first description was in 1989 by Peter Vincent 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. 376.
Individual evidence
- ^ In: South African Journal of Botany . Volume 55, Number 3, 1989 pp. 335-336.
Web links
- Photos of the kind at cactuspro.com