WorldFloraDB - Monilaria chrysoleuca

Characteristics

Sparsely branched, succulent shrub, up to 200 mm tall, stems up to 15 mm diam., terminal sclerotic sheaths covering the internodes tough and completely covering the corpuscle of the next season's first leaf-pair. First leaf-pair forming a nearly spherical corpuscle up to 10 mm diam., second leaf-pair ± 100 x 3-5 mm. Flowers solitary, on pedicels up to 100 mm long, petals white, yellow, orange, salmon, red or magenta. Fruit 5(6)-locular.

Life form

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Growth form

shrub

Growth support

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Foliage retention

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Sexuality

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Pollination

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Spread

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Mature width (meter)

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Mature height (meter)

0.18 - 0.23

Root system

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Rooting depth (meter)

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Root diameter (meter)

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Flower color

Blooming months

Jan	Feb	Mar
Apr	May	Jun
Jul	Aug	Sep
Oct	Nov	Dec

Fruit color

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Fruiting months

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Nitrogen fixer

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Photosynthetic pathway

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Environment

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Usage

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Edible	-
Therapeutic use	-
Human toxicity	-
Animal toxicity	-

Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	-
WFO ID	wfo-0001293648
COL ID	6RNHX
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Monilaria polita Monilaria salmonea Schwantesia chrysoleuca Mesembryanthemum chrysoleucum Mitrophyllum chrysoleucum Monilaria chrysoleuca f. purpurea Monilaria chrysoleuca Conophyllum chrysoleucum Monilaria chrysoleuca var. chrysoleuca Monilaria chrysoleuca var. polita Monilaria chrysoleuca var. purpurea

WorldFloraDB 2024

Monilaria chrysoleuca (Schltr.) Schwantes

Species