Tylecodon tenuis (Tölken) Bruyns

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Tylecodon

Characteristics

Small, straggling succulent, with 1 erect stem from an underground tuber, up to 200 mm long and 1.5-3 mm thick, with protruding and often decurved phyllopodia. Leaves dry at flowering, linear-oblanceolate to elliptic, dorsiventrally flattened, 6-18 x 4-6 mm, glandular-pubescent. Flowers ± spreading, in a loose glandular-pubescent inflorescence, with peduncle 30-60 mm long, corolla tube 6-8 mm long, inflated towards mouth, brownish yellow-green, lobes 4-5 mm long, red-striped on yellow.
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Distribution

Tylecodon tenuis world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:963744-1
WFO ID wfo-0000408999
COL ID 59SWL
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Synonyms

Tylecodon scandens Tylecodon tenuis Cotyledon pygmaea var. tenuis Tylecodon pygmaeus var. tenuis