Entry for COTYLEDON tomentosa Harv. [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 tomentosaHarv. [family CRASSULACEAE], ;—Zey.! Z. n. N. n. E. Crass. 3. 108. 5.
Information
stem slender; leaves opposite, decussate, ovato-oblong, thick and fleshy, sub-petiolate, densely tomentose, as are also peduncles and calyx; peduncle elongate, sub-corymbose at the summit, few flowered; pedicels longish, nodding; tube of the pubescent corolla twice as long as the calyx, equalling the lanceolate limbs of the petals. Stem 4–6 inches long, 1 1/2–2 lines in diameter, laxly leafy, prolonged into a naked peduncle 4–8 inches long, bearing a slightly branched, corymbose cyme of 4–6 flowers. Leaves about an inch long, half inch wide, probably convex, certainly fleshy, thickly clothed with woolly hairs. Flowers about 1/2– 3/4 inch long, red?
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Grootrivier and Trompeterspoort, Uitenhage. Zeyher! (Herb. Sond.)
