Trichodiadema mirabile
Appearance
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Trichodiadema mirabile Schwantes
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Trichodiadema mirabile is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Laingsburg area and especially from south-facing slopes.
Description
A small, erect shrub, reaching up to 11 cm.
The leaves are erect, stiff and papillate, and each leaf is tipped with dark-brown, erect, inclining bristles.
The flowers are white to pale-cream in colour, with white filamentous staminodes at the centre, and are on short stalks.
The fruit capsule has six locules, each locule with distinctive V-shaped covering membranes.[1]
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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.