Entry for COTYLEDON cristata Haw. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 327, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
COTYLEDON cristataHaw. [family CRASSULACEAE], Phil. Mag. 1827. p. 123;—DC. l. c. p. 399. E. & Z.! 1974.
COTYLEDON clavifolia?Haw. [family CRASSULACEAE], l. c.
Information
nearly stemless; radical leaves petiolate, much attenuated at base, narrow-cuneate, abrupt and crispato-undulate at the summit, flat, fleshy, glabrous; peduncle elongate, simple; flowers spicato-racemose, subsessile, erect; corolla tubular, much longer than the calyx, with a short spreading limb. Crown of the root shaggy, with rigid, red, curled bristles. Leaves 1–1 1/2 inches long, very much attenuated at base into a more or less obvious petiole, the limb cuneate, but varying in breadth from 2 to 6–8 lines; the narrower forms answer to the description of Haworth's C. clavifolia. Peduncle slender, 6–8 inches long, about half of it occupied by inflorescence. Flowers as in C. hemisphærica, but rather smaller.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Dry hills at the Zwartkops R., Uit., E. & Z.! (Herb. Sond.)
