Trichodiadema attonsum

Trichodiadema attonsum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is common among pale quartzite rocks, and in the Riversdale region. Unlike most other species in its genus, it does not have a typical diadem on its leaf-tips.

Trichodiadema attonsum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Core eudicots
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Aizoaceae
Genus:
Trichodiadema
Species:
T. attonsum
Binomial name
Trichodiadema attonsum
Schwantes

Description

A small, erect shrub, up to 15 cm tall. The leaves are papillate, and are not tipped with clear diadems, unlike most of the other species of its genus. Instead, the concolorous papillae near the tip are just slightly elongated.

The flowers are white, with petals in three series, and with filamentous staminodes at the centre. The flower stalks have especially long papillae.

The fruit capsule has five locules (sometimes four), each with well-developed covering membranes and thinning expanded keels.[1]

References
  1. 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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