Cotyledon orbiculata L.
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Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1753
429
ICN
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
species
Cotyledon orbiculata
Classification
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Descriptions
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Succulent subshrub with short, thick stem, often branched and forming clumps. Lvs opposite, sometimes subrosulate, ± vertical, sessile, to 11 × 9 cm, 5-12-(15) mm thick near middle, broadly obovate, very rarely narrow- oblong, ± concave above and convex beneath, entire, green with dense covering of white bloom; margin usually reddish purple; apex rounded and often ± mucronate. Flowering stems to c. 50 cm high, purplish and covered with white bloom. Cymes of few to many pendent fls; bracts 0.5-2 cm long. Sepals 3-5 mm long, triangular, green or ± red, covered with white bloom. Corolla 3-4-(4.7) cm long, orange or orange-red; tube c. ⅔ length of corolla, broadly cylindric and shallowly ribbed, with some bloom outside; lobes becoming reflexed, acute. Stamens 2-2.5 cm long, yellow. Styles 1.5-2 cm long, green. Scales 2-2.5 mm long, oblong, triangular-ovate to almost square. Follicles 2-3 cm long. Seeds 0.5-0.8 mm long, oblong, longitudinally ribbed.
Taxonomic concepts
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Historic biostatus
Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Subtropicals, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 1,7
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0e3a83c3-e040-43d0-abab-b63530372b67
scientific name
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1 January 2000
6 December 2022