Adromischus roaneanus Uitewaal

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Adromischus

Characteristics

Perennials with erect to decumbent slender branches up to 0.25 m long, little branched and often zig-zagging, with fibrous roots. Leaves oblanceolate, rarely obovate or linear-oblanceolate, more or less strongly cuneate, acute, obtuse or cuspidate, dorsiventrally flattened with horny margin usually restricted to the upper half, grey-green to grey with a thick bloom and rarely with small purple spots. Inflorescence a thyrse with one-flowered cymes, grey-green to grey; peduncle 0.25-0.38 m long; pedicels 2-3(-4) mm long. Buds terete, abruptly tapering towards apex, spreading. Calyx 1.5-2 mm long, grey. Corolla with cylindrical tube 11-13(-14.5) mm long, pale green; lobes broadly triangular, (1.5-)2-3 mm long, cuspidate, rough and without trichomes, white to cream often tinged pink and with mauve mucro. Anthers protruding. Squamae square to transversely oblong, 0.7-1.2 x 0.9-1.2 mm, slightly emarginate, usually somewhat broader at about the middle.
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Clump-forming, fibrous-rooted, succulent perennial, with branches up to 1,2  tall. Leaves nearly sessile, oblanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, grey-green, sometimes red-spotted, margin horny in upper half. Flowers in a spike-like, usually unbranched inflorescence, corolla tube 11-13 mm long, green, lobes 2-3 mm long, rough on inside.
Succulent Like ?. hemisphaericus but leaves with a small apical point and with sharply edged margin.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Images

Adromischus roaneanus unspecified picture

Distribution

Adromischus roaneanus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:272169-1
WFO ID wfo-0000521393
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Synonyms

Adromischus roaneanus Adromischus violaceus Adromischus grasbergensis