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Cotyledon orbiculata L.

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Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
429
ICN
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
species
Cotyledon orbiculata

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orbiculata

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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.

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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.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
Cotyledon orbiculata L.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
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Subtropicals, Vol. 1, No. 4, p. 1,7

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Cotyledon orbiculata L.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Cotyledon orbiculata L.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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0e3a83c3-e040-43d0-abab-b63530372b67
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
6 December 2022
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