Duvalia parviflora N.E.Br.

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Origin and Habitat: Van Wyksdorp to Ladismith and Oudtshoorn, Western Cape (Little Karoo), South African. Extent of occurrence 1400 km², suspected to occur at 10 locations.
Altitude range: 300-600 metres above sea level.
Habitat and Ecology: Fynbos, Succulent Karoo. Duvalia parvifloraSN|30349]]SN|30349]] grows on flat, stony to loamy ground, under small karroid bushes, ongoing decline in habitat is currently taking place as a result of ostrich farming and to a lesser extent habitat is being lost for vineyard cultivation.

Description: Duvalia parvifloraSN|30349]]SN|30349]] is a miniature perennial-succulent which produces an abundance of minuscule 'colourpoint' flowers, cream with lobe tips brownish-purple, lobes furrowed along their length. The species seems to be isolated from the rest in this genus.
Stems: Globose to oblong, about 10-25 mm long and 10-15 mm thick, very obtusely and somewhat obscurely 5(–6?)-angled, light green to greyish-green, mottled with dull purple, faintly glaucous, angles, with minute leaf rudiments less than 1 mm long, rather obscurely indented above each minute tooth, or obscurely and distantly tessellate-tuberculate.
Flowers: 2-6 together, near the stem base, successively developed near the apex of the stems, essentially scentless. Pedicels 3-8 mm long. Sepals 0,75-1 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla about 10-15 mm in diameter, cream. pale yellow to yellowish-olive, with the apical half of the lobes tinged brownish or pale purple. Lobes 3-6 mm long, l 5 - 2 mm wide, very spreading, lamina convex, not completely reflexcd, closely replicate to the base into longitudinal furrows plates 1.5 mm deep, glabrous, ciliate with a few very minute simple cream-coloured hairs at the base only. Annulus 3-5 mm in diam., raised about 0,5-2 mm above the level of the lobes, slender. rounded or obtusely pentagonal, glabrous, the top quite covered (without leaving a margin) by the equally large outer corona; “outer and inner coronas straw-coloured, anthers purple”, disc 3.5-4 mm in diameter to 1 mm high more or less pentagonal. Convex, rising above the annulus. Pollinia 0.3 x 0.2 mm.
Fruits: Seed pods (follicles), usually appearing as twin horns up to a year after flowering, 8- 12 cm, fusiform, terete, apically acute, but not beaked, wingless, smooth, decorative.
Seeds: 3.5 x 2.5 mm.

 

Duvalia parviflora (llifle.com)

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