Larryleachia cactiformis (Hook.) Plowes

Species

Angiosperms > Gentianales > Apocynaceae > Larryleachia

Characteristics

Dwarf shrublet, branching from base, with 1-10 stems. Stems 40-150(-200) mm long, 30-60 mm thick, erect, cylindrical clavate, whitish to grey-green; tubercles flattened rounded polygonal, crowded but arranged into ±12-16 rows along stem, each tipped with small conical to flattened leaf-rudiment <1 mm long. Inflorescences mainly near apex of stem, flowers arising in groups of 1-5, developing successively; pedicel 1-2 mm long, 1 mm thick; sepals ±1.5 mm long, 1.0 mm broad at base, ovate, acute, glabrous except for cilia sometimes on margins. Corolla 6-15 mm diam., campanulate to shallowly campanulate; inside white to pale yellow barred (rarely spotted) with purple-red to ± uniformly purple-red or maroon, covered with obtuse papillae usually each with a small apical bristle; tube 1-3 mm deep, shallowly bowl-shaped to cupular, containing most of gynostegium; lobes 2.0-3.5 mm long, 2.5-5.5 mm broad at base, spreading, usually with recurved tips, broadly ovate-deltate, broadly acute, margins slightly recurved. Corona ±1.5 mm tall, 3.0-4.5 mm broad, spotted and lined with red on yellowish background, ± sessile; outer lobes ±1.5 mm long, ascending, bifid to well below middle into spreading-erect straight to slightly diverging slightly flattened obtuse lobules, laterally fused in lower half to bases of inner lobes; inner lobes ±1.5 mm long, adpressed to backs of anthers and usually not exceeding them (sometimes meeting in centre and slightly overlapping), linear to narrowly deltoid, acute to truncate-emarginate, with ± deltoid erect to slightly spreading dorsal projection near base ± in series with outer lobes, usually white above with red margins.
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Dwarf, glabrous, often single-stemmed succulent, up to 150 mm tall, stems leafless, cylindrical-clavate, 12-16-angled, tuberculate, up to 60 mm diam. Flowers 1-5, in sessile clusters, congregated near apex, pedicels 1-2 mm long. Corolla campanulate, 6-15 mm diam., inside papillate and glabrous, each papilla tipped with a small, apical bristle, cream, with maroon bars and rings, tube 1-3 mm long, lobes deltate, 2-3.5 x 2.5-5.5 mm, without marginal cilia. Corona spotted with red on yellow, outer lobes bifid, inner adpressed to anthers and not exceeding them.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Images

Larryleachia cactiformis unspecified picture

Distribution

Larryleachia cactiformis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:995319-1
WFO ID wfo-0000362534
COL ID 3SBMG
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Synonyms

Larryleachia cactiformis Hoodia cactiformis Stapelia cactiformis Trichocaulon cactiformis Leachia cactiformis Leachiella cactiformis

Lower taxons

Larryleachia cactiformis var. felina Larryleachia cactiformis var. cactiformis