Trichodiadema densum
Trichodiadema densum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
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Description
A small, compact, clumping shrub. The 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 pale fruit capsule has six locules (not five like T. burgeri), each with very well developed covering membranes.
This species very closely resembles Trichodiadema burgeri, which is more elongated and has five locules. [1] [2]
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References
- I.M. Niesler (2017). Trichodiadema Ruschioideae. In: Hartmann H. (eds) Aizoaceae. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
- 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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