Tylecodon suffultus
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Tylecodon suffultus is a species of the genus Tylecodon in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Tylecodon suffultus grows as a small, creeping and poorly branched succulent with an underground and branched tuber. The up to 30 cm long and gray shoots reach 3 to 5 mm in diameter and are provided with black stripes. The linear to elliptical leaves are close to the shoot tips and are wedge-shaped at the base and have a blunt or pointed tip. They become 1 to 3 cm long and 2 to 3 mm wide. The top of the leaves is furrowed and the bottom is convex.
The inflorescences form up to 10 cm long, spread out thyrsen with 3 to 5 monochasias , which in turn carry 1 to 3 upright single flowers. The inflorescence stalk is hairy glandular-downy. The flower stalk becomes 1.2 to 2 cm long. The linear to lanceolate sepals are also hairy with glandular and downy hairs and are up to 3 mm long and 1 mm wide. The tubular corolla is pink on the inside and 5 to 8 mm long and 3 mm in diameter. The extended and later bent back tips are elongated and up to 5 mm long.
young shoot with dried up leaf remains
older shoot with stem base (approach of the thickened tuber)
Section from an inflorescence
Details of the single flowers
Systematics and distribution
Tylecodon suffultus is widespread in the Western Cape province of South Africa in the Succulent Karoo . The first description was in 1978 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. 379.
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Richard Tölken: New taxa and new combinations in Cotyledon and allied genera . In: Bothalia . Volume 12, Issue 3, pp. 380-381, 1978 ( PDF ).
