Tylecodon reticulatus (L.F.) Toelken

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Tylecodon

Characteristics

Perennials with more or less branched fleshy stems scarcely swollen towards the base, covered with yellowish brown peeling bark or sometimes with short circular phyllopodia on young branches. Leaves linear, oblanceolate, rarely obovate, (5-)15-35(-50) x 2-10(-15) mm, cuneate, acute or obtuse, terete to somewhat grooved or dorsiventrally flattened but usually with margins curved upwards, glandular-pubescent to glabrous, usually yellowish green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 3-many monochasia, each with 2-6(-10) flowers, usually glandular-pubescent; peduncle (15-)50-100 mm long, brown; pedicels 8-25 mm long. Calyx 3-4 mm long, glandular-pubescent, usually yellowish green; lobes tri-angular, acute. Corolla glandular-pubescent outside; tube cylindrical to urn-shaped, 6-8 mm long, with fine hairs on inside and often on lobes, yellowish green, sometimes tinged brown or purplish along ridges where petals fuse; lobes 3-4.5 mm long, recurved, pale yellow. Anthers 1.5-2 mm long. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0.7-1.2 x 0.4-0.7 mm, entire to more or less emarginate, fleshy, pale yellow.
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Perennial shrub with thick, erect, little-branched stems, 0.3 m in diam., 0.3-0.4 m high, covered with yellow-brown peeling bark. Leaves on tip of branches, linear, oblanceolate, 15-40 x 3-10 mm, cuneate, obtuse, terete, glandular-pubescent to glabrous. Inflorescence a persistent thyrse with 1-3 monochasia, each with 2-6 glandular-pubescent, erect flowers; peduncle 0.05-0.10 m long. Corolla: tube cylindrical to urn-shaped, yellowish green sometimes with brown-purple where petals are fused, 6-8 mm long, with fine hairs on lobes. Flowering time Oct.-Jan.
Much-branched succulent, up to 0.3 m tall, sometimes with short leaf-bases. Leaves dry at flowering, linear to obovate, terete (rarely dorsiventrally flattened), 15-50 x 2-10 mm, glandular-pubescent to glabrous. Flowers in a twiggy, divaricately-branched inflorescence, mostly glandular-pubescent, with peduncle 30-100 mm long, usually persistent, corolla tube 6-8 mm long and cylindrical, yellow-green to brown, lobes 3-5 mm long, yellow to pink.
Succulent shrublet with thick, peeling stems to 30 cm. Leaves dry at flowering, abscising, oblanceolate. Flowers in a twiggy, divaricately branched cyme, urn-shaped, yellowish, tube 6-8 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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Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-5
Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-10

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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
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Images

Tylecodon reticulatus unspecified picture

Distribution

Tylecodon reticulatus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:276921-1
WFO ID wfo-0000408989
COL ID 7CYHH
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Tylecodon reticulatus Cotyledon reticulata Cotyledon parvula

Lower taxons

Tylecodon reticulatus subsp. phyllopodium