Cotyledon orbiculata
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08 Jul 2006
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Full name: | Cotyledon orbiculata L. |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Plakkie, Varkoorplakkie, Varkoor, Pêpê-bos, Beesbulk, Kooltrie, Kouterie, Koterie, Varkiesblaar, Krimpsiektebos, Bobbejaanoorplakkie |
| English common name(s): | Pig's ear, White lady |
| Synonym(s): | Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. orbiculata Adromischus mucronatus (Lam.) Lem. Cotyledon ausana Dinter Cotyledon decussata Sims Cotyledon decussata Sims var. dielsii Schltr. ex Poelln. Cotyledon decussata Sims var. hinrichseniana H.Jacobsen Cotyledon elata Haw. Cotyledon engleri A.Berger & Dinter Cotyledon flanaganii Schönland & Baker f. var. karroensis Cotyledon mucronata Lam. Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. ausana (Dinter) H.Jacobsen Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. dinteri H.Jacobsen Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. elata (Haw.) DC. Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. engleri (Dinter & A.Berger) Dinter Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. higginsiae H.Jacobsen Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. hinrichseniana H.Jacobsen Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. obovata DC. Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. oophylla Dinter Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. ramosa (Haw.) DC. Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. rotundifolia DC. Cotyledon orbiculata L. var. viridis Dinter ex Range Cotyledon ovata Haw. - non Mill.-- nom.illegit. Cotyledon papillaris auct. - sensu Haw., non L.f. Cotyledon papillaris L.f. var. tricuspidata (Haw.) DC. Cotyledon ramosa Haw. - p.p. Cotyledon ramosissima auct. - sensu Mill., non Haw.-- nom.illegit. Cotyledon tricuspidata Haw. Cotyledon undulata auct. - sensu H.Jacobsen, non Haw. Cotyledon undulata Haw. var. mucronata (Lam.) Poelln. Cotyledon ungulata Lam. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Small shrubs rarely up to 1.5 m high, more or less branched. Leaves opposite or whorled, obovate to oblanceolate to narrowly linear, (30-)50-140(-160) x 10-50(-90) mm, cuneate, rounded or cuspidate or rarely acute, dorsiventrally flattened and slightly convex on both surfaces to terete, glabrous to hairy, green to grey and often with a red or pale margin. Inflorescence a thyrse with 3-5 dichasia usually with many flowers; peduncle 0.2-0.5(-1) m long, glabrous to hairy. Calyx: lobes broadly to narrowly triangular, 2-5 mm long, acute, glabrous, rarely hairy. Corolla deep red to orange, rarely yellow; tube cylindrical or almost so, 8-30 mm long, often bulging in the middle; glabrous, rarely hairy outside and glabrous inside except for a tuft of hairs where filaments are fused to tube; lobes lanceolate, rarely ovate, recurved or recoiled. Anthers 1.5-2.5 mm long. Squamae transversely oblong to almost square, 0.4-0.9 X 1-1.5 mm, entire or emarginate, fleshy, yellow. (from JSTOR website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
