Tylecodon stenocaulis
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Tylecodon stenocaulis is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon stenocaulis grows as a dwarf and spreading succulent plant with a height of up to 8 cm and a diameter of up to 12 cm from an indistinct tuber with a diameter of 2 cm. The flat-rooted and spread out to upright shoots are up to 12 cm long and 3 mm in diameter. They have a gray-brown bark and are covered with short, tapering phyllopods that are up to 2 mm long. The different leaves are 7 to 35 mm long and 5 to 7 mm wide. They are slightly flattened to almost rounded. The mostly lanceolate leaf blade is maroon-green in color and covered with short, shiny, glandular hairs. The base is wedge-shaped and the tip is pointed to blunt. Older leaves wither and their base remains on the shoot longer.
The inflorescences form up to 6 cm long, spreading thyrsen with 1 to 3 monochasias . The spread to ascending flowers stand on slender and 1 to 3.5 cm long flower stalks . The funnel-shaped corolla is yellowish green in color and 12 to 14 mm long. The spread out to back-bent tips are 5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. They are dark maroon colored and pointed.
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon stenocaulis is widespread in the South African province of Western Cape in the Succulent Karoo . The first description was in 1992 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. 378.
Individual evidence
- ^ In: South African Journal of Botany . Volume 58, Number 1, 1992 pp. 52-54.
