Tylecodon

Tolken
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Shrublets or rarely shrubs to treelets, with branches erect, rarely decumbent, cartilaginous. Leaves spirally arranged, free, fleshy, deciduous. Inflorescence a thyrse (if spike-like then few-flowered) with 1-many monochasia with 1-many flowers; peduncle present with gradual transition from leaves to much shorter bracts below flowers; flowers spreading, 5-merous. Calyx 5-partite. Corolla with 5 petals fused into a tube usually longer than lobes. Stamens 10, in 2 whorls; filaments usually with a tuft of hairs where fused to lower third of corolla tube; anthers usually exserted, with terminal appendage +/- spherical. Squamae 5, free. Carpels 5, usually free, with distinct styles. Seeds ellipsoid with constriction before widening abruptly at blunt proximal end, covered with vertical ridges and dense horizontal striations in grooves.
Distribution: 
Species 41, endemic to sthn Afr., Namibia, Northern and Western Cape, with concentration of species in the Northern Cape.
Classification: 
CRASSULACEAE

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Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith