Accession Data
Family: Crassulaceae
Country of Origin: South Africa
Description: Plant solitary, summer-deciduous, dwarf geophyte to 10 mm in diameter. Roots fibrous. Tuber oblong, up to 35×10–15 mm, pale grey-brown and somewhat flaking, exposing the grey-green epidermis underneath; phyllopodia absent. Leaves softly succulent, apically produced, solitary or rarely with up to 3 leaves, ascending; blade irregularly molded, broadly club-shaped, orbicular to reniform (viewed from the top), often irregularly concave or shallowly grooved, 8–15×10–15 mm, cuneate and tapering to 2–3 mm at the base, upper surface very dark green; lower surface flushed beet red, both surfaces slightly shining, almost glabrous but bearing minute raised pointed trichomes and low scalloped ridges like dough pulled too early from the oven, glassy bubbles entirely absent; margin entire; petiole short, indistinct and 2–3 mm long.1
Inflorescence a branched lax thyrse up to 100 mm long, bearing 1–2 monochasia, each with 1–2 flowers, faintly scented, not self-fertile; peduncle greenish, 15 mm long, 0.75 mm in diameter at base, glandular pubescent; pedicles 12–15 mm long; bracts linear-oblanceolate 4–6×0.3 mm, reddish-green soon becoming yellowish and deciduous. Calyx glandular pubescent, maroon green; lobes 3–4×0.5 mm. Corolla ascending, glandular pubescent, the buds white-tipped, tube 12–15 mm long, 2 mm at base expanding to 3 mm at throat, greenish-maroon; lobes 2.5–3×1.5 mm, becoming recurved, white, apices acute. Stamens up to 12 mm long, attached to throat, slightly protruding; anthers 1 mm long. Squamae oblong emarginate, ascending, 1×0.35 mm, yellowish-white, translucent. Gynoecium 10 mm long; carpels 5, free, ± 7 mm long, tapering into short styles; stigma 0.5 mm long. Follicles fused, 8×1 mm, greenish. Seeds ovoid, (0.6)–0.7 mm long, (0.3)–0.4 mm wide. brownish-yellow, surface slightly rugose, longitudinally ridged. Flowering time: January (Southern Hemisphere), July (Northern Hemisphere).1
Accession #: 201800167
Accession Date: 2018-12-07 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 2207
Quantity: 3
Source: M. Opel
Provenance: MR Opel 94, Bakoondkolk, E. of Bitterfontein, Western Cape, RSA.
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: core eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
SubFamily: Sempervivoideae
Tribe: Kalanchoeae
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