Tylecodon grandiflorus (Burm.F.) Toelken

Species

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Characteristics

Perennials with usually moderately branched stems rarely up to 0.5 m long, covered with remains of old leaves attached to phyllopodia. Leaves oblanceolate, 40-80(-120) x 4-10 (-14) mm, gradually tapering towards base, acute, more or less dorsiventrally compressed but with margins often bent upwards, usually glabrous, green to brownish green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1-5(-7) monochasia, each with 1-2(-3) flowers, glandular-pubescent to glabrous; peduncle 0.25-0.4(-0.6) m long; pedicels (10-)15-25 mm long. Calyx (8-)10-15(-17) mm long, glandular-tomentose, green to brown; lobes narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute. Corolla glandular-pubescent, orange to red; tube cylindrical and slightly broadened towards mouth, 30-35(-40) mm long, curved upwards, glabrous inside except for some hairs where filaments are fused to tube; lobes 13-17 mm long, often unequal. Anthers c. 2 mm long. Squamae oblong, 1-1.4 x 0.6-0.8 mm, usually slightly emarginate, fleshy, yellow.
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Sprawling, succulent shrub, up to 0.3 m tall, with branches 15-45 mm thick, with scattered, blunt phyllopodia. Leaves dry at flowering, oblanceolate, dorsiventrally flattened, 40-80 x 5-15 mm, usually glabrous. Flowers upright to spreading, in a showy, glandular-pubescent to glabrous inflorescence, with peduncle 0.2-0.5 m long, corolla tube 30-40 mm long, broadening towards mouth, orange to red, lobes 13-17 mm long, orange to red.
Succulent shrublet to 50 cm, often sprawling. Leaves dry at flowering, withering but not abscising, oblanceolate, margins often rolled upwards. Flowers in a narrow cyme, tubular, slightly zygomorphic, reddish, tube 30-40 mm.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.3
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Soil texture 6-7
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

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Images

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Distribution

Tylecodon grandiflorus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:276911-1
WFO ID wfo-0000408918
COL ID 59SVN
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Synonyms

Tylecodon grandiflorus Cotyledon curviflora Cotyledon grandiflora Cotyledon purpurea Cotyledon tuberculosa