Trichodiadema mirabile

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Trichodiadema mirabile
Trichodiadema mirabilis - Kirstenbosch.jpg
Juvenile T. mirabilis in cultivation.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
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Angiosperms
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Core eudicots
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T. mirabile
Binomial name
Trichodiadema mirabile
Schwantes

Trichodiadema mirabile is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Laingsburg area and especially from south-facing slopes.

Description[]

A small, erect shrub, reaching up to 11 cm.

The leaves are erect, stiff and papillate, and each leaf is tipped with dark-brown, erect, inclining bristles.

The flowers are white to pale-cream in colour, with white filamentous staminodes at the centre, and are on short stalks.

The fruit capsule has six locules, each locule with distinctive V-shaped covering membranes.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ H.E.K. Hartmann and I.M. Niesler. (2013). A new morphological study of the genus Trichodiadema (Aizoaceae) permits the description of a new subgenus, t. subg. Gemiclausa. Bradleya 31:58-75.


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