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리토프스 베루쿨로사-[정명] Lithops verruculosa Nel식물/들꽃-번행초과(Aizoaceae) 2024. 12. 4. 12:43
Origin and Habitat: South Africa, Cape Province. Widespread in large area comprised among Kenhardt, South of Prieska, Brandvlei, and East of Gamoep.
Type Locality: North West Cape.
Habitat: They grow on granitic soils among gravel and stones comprising: Amygdaloidal lavas, banded ironstone, calcrete, fine-grained quartzitic sandstones, cherts, jaspers and shaly sandstones). Background colours grey-white, grey, brown, reddish brown, greyish green, some pink, red, black and blue.Synonyms:
Description: Lithops verruculosaSN|13065]]SN|13065]] is recognizable for the characteristic small shiny red verruculae or pimples on the face, and shows a large variety of flower colours. It form small groups up to 8 or more heads (usually 2-4).
Desmond Cole field numbers: C120, C129, C159, C178, C198, C200B, C229B, C230C; (*inae) C095, C157, C196.
Bodies (Paired leave): Medium to large, up to 25-34 mm long and 15-26 mm wide at the fissure. Top flattened to slightly convex, occasionally slightly concave up to 3 cm tall, bluish with blue margins. Face whitish through yellow to bronze and pink with small raised red warts on top surface, wrinkled, the warts mainly in the wrinkles; fissure shallow bordered by a line, 4-8 mm; lobes conjunct. Face reniform; lobes equal to unequal; opaque to translucent usually without an obvious window; almost smooth to somewhat rugose. Margins dentate with small peninsulas and numerous lines, but not always clearly distinguishable; Channels slightly impressed, irregular; Islands enclosed by the grooves, somewhat irregular. Rubrications evident and numerous, with small isolated round shining warts or pimples (a feature characteristic of this species), up to 1 mm in diameter, usually situated in the channels, slightly raised. Dusky dots not visible.
Colours: Face grey or beige tinged with pink, yellow, light brown, lilac, green or blue. Windows & channels translucent greyish, brownish or reddish green, or greenish brown or bluish or greenish grey. Rubrications dark blood-red or purplish red, usually clear and slightly shiny, sometimes deeper set, covered with a bluish film, and then obscurely bluish red. Shoulders bluish grey or greyish blue contrasting with the margins.
Flowers: Small to medium sized (25-35 mm in diameter) multicoloured, straw yellow, golden yellow, light orange, bronze, carrot, lime yellow, shell-pink and rose, salmon, cream and near-white; often with a contrasting tint or inner ring of orange, rose-pink, mauve or magenta, which may extend up onto the stamens.
Fruits. Seed capsules 6-8 long 5-7 mm in diameter, (4-)5(-6)-merous, boat-shaped, top flat. Face elliptic to almost round.
Seeds: Yellow-brown, smooth to rugose.Lithops verruculosa (llifle.com)
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