코노피툼프르테첸스-Conophytum frutescens Schwantes

 

코노피툼프르테첸스-

 

Conophytum frutescens Schwantes

Origin and Habitat: Northern Cape, Namaqualand (Provincial distribution Komaggas to Kourkammaberg just on the eastern edge of the coastal plain ), South Africa.
Habitat and Ecology: It grows in Succulent Karoo on wet exposed quartzite slopes. It is a locally abundant, but range-restricted species (Extent of occurrence less than 100 km²) that is not threatened. The area seems to support a fairly lush vegetation comprising unusual geophytes like Massonia depressa and Eriospermum aphyllum, a tuber with photosynthetic stems branched like an old rooftop TV antenna.

Description: Conophytum frutescens Schwantes sometimes listed under its old name of Conophytum salmonicolor, which well describes the beautiful orange-pink or orange/coppery flowers. The orange mid-day flowers are also quite unusual: similar coloration only otherwise occurs in conophytums with nocturnal blooms, or in hybrids between species with violet petals and species with yellow petals.
Stems: In a genus known for compact and sometimes even largely subterranean growth, C. frutescens produces laxly branched stems with extended internodes up to 3 cm long, though this feature is lacking in some northern populations.

Flowers: Orange to coppery or pinkish. Ovaries included. Calyx tube 5 mm long, with 5 narrow, 5 mm long, pale green, translucent lobes. Corolla tube 1.2-1.4 cm. long, up to 1.5 mm wide, narrow lanceolate, tip slightly incurved, inner narrower and shorter.
Blooming season: It is one of the earliest to flower. Most conophytums have autumn flowers, but C. frutescens is in full bloom at the summer solstice.
Fruits: 4-5-locular.

Conophytum (코노피툼속) 6종이 국표에 있으나 이 종은 없다.

 

국표에는 없다.

 

과명	Aizoaceae (번행초과)	속명	Conophytum (코노피툼속)
전체학명	Conophytum frutescens Schwantes	추천명	코노피툼프르테첸스
이명		외국명