Trichodiadema burgeri
Trichodiadema burgeri is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Montagu and Oudtshoorn regions.
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| Species: | T. burgeri |
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| Trichodiadema burgeri L.Bolus | |
Description
A small, erect, clumping shrub. The imbricate leaves are tipped with white radiating bristles (the typical diadems of the genus).
The flowers are reddish in colour, with filamentous staminodes at the centre. The flower stalk and base are covered in thick hairs.
The pale fruit capsule has five locules (not six like T. densum), each with very well developed covering membranes.
This species very closely resembles Trichodiadema densum, which is more compact and has six locules.[1]
References
- H.E.K. Hartmann and I.M. Niesler. (2013). A new morphological study of the genus Trichodiadema (Aizoaceae) permits the description of a new subgenus, t. subg. Gemiclausa. Bradleya 31:58-75.
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