Cheiridopsis minor (L. Bolus) H.E.K.Hartmann

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Origin and Habitat: Namaqualand, Northern Cape, South Africa.
Altitude: Around 300 metres above sea level.
Habitat: Cheiridopsis minorSN|27082]]SN|27082]] grows in gravelly soils. Rainfall around 100 mm p.a. in winter or March and November. It is dormant in summer.

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RUSSIAN (Русский): Хейридопсис Мейера разн. маленькая

Description: Cheiridopsis minor also known as Cheiridopsis meyeriSN|27080]]SN|27080]] var. minor, is a compact, mat forming perennial-succulent plant less than 2 cm tall and 5-15 cm in diameter. It is highly branched with short visible internodes, and produces two different types of greenish-grey leaves, the smallest leaves in the genus. The resting pair are united, forming a Conophytum-like body and the pair produced in the growing season are separated. Entire plant sheaths over in summer heat.
Leaves: Markedly heterophyllous (dimorphic). Tiny rounded to clamshell-like, opposite, similar to those of Cheiridopsis meyeriSN|27080]]SN|27080]], but smaller: 6-9 mm long, and less than 4 mm across; dry leaf sheaths also basally brown. Short leaf-pair (or resting pair) connate forming a whitish, basally reddish-brown papery sheath during the dry season enclosing the long leaf-pair which is connate more than 40%, but leaf length almost equal. Keel with a line of long papillae, otherwise smooth and flat.
Flowers: Yellow.
Fruits: Decumbent, with a conspicuous turret-shaped top with a central dip, the covering membranes below with high pipes or wings in subapical position as in C. namaquensis;
Notes: This species along with Cheiridopsis meyeriSN|27080]]SN|27080]] and Cheiridopsis delphinoides is part of a group of strictly related species formerly considered as one. C. minor differs from C. meyeri by the possession of conspicuous pipes on the valve wings which raise the valves to a turret-shape, and by its much higher degree of branching.

 

Cheiridopsis minor (llifle.com)

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