Biology:Trichodiadema barbatum

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Short description: Species of plant

Trichodiadema barbatum
Trichodiadema barbatum Prague 2011 2.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Genus: Trichodiadema
Species:
T. barbatum
Binomial name
Trichodiadema barbatum
(L.) Schwantes[1]
Synonyms[2]

Trichodiadema barbatum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa .[3]

Description

Botanical illustration of Trichodiadema barbatum (as Mesembryanthemum barbatum)
Trichodiadema barbatum in cultivation

A small, gracile, erect-to-decumbent plant, with long, slender, fragile, stick-like branches. The internodes are minutely papillate; On young branches the internodes are green, becoming grey on older branches.[4]

The grey-green leaves are slightly triangular in cross-section, and have large bladder cells on their leaf-surface. Bristles (5-7) emerge from the dark tip of the leaf.

The solitary, bright pink-to-purple flowers are born on long pedicels. They have petals with slightly notched apices, small pale filamentous staminodes, and yellow anthers.

The fruit capsule is 5-locular, like that of Trichodiadema burgeri (but unlike some other species in the genus, such as Trichodiadema densum and Trichodiadema marlothii.[5][6]

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[7]

References

  1. Z. Sukkulentenk. 2: 188 (1926)
  2. "Trichodiadema barbatum (L.) Schwantes". Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 2017. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:364874-1. 
  3. SANBI Red List page
  4. H.E.K. Hartmann. (2017). Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae F-Z. Springer Verlag
  5. I.M. Niesler (2017). Trichodiadema Ruschioideae. In: Hartmann H. (eds) Aizoaceae. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg: 341
  6. 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.
  7. "Trichodiadema barbatum". The Royal Horticultural Society. https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/88884/i-Trichodiadema-barbatum-i/Details. 

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