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Astroloba
''Astroloba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)"Asphodeloideae" ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2016-06-10 native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Naming The name of the genus is derived from the Greek words ''astros'', star, and ''lobos'', lobe, and refers to the starlike shape of the petals, which appear at the end of the tube-like flowers. Description They are very closely related to the genus ''Haworthia'', but are distinguished by their flowers being regular and not double-tipped. The flowers are small and white, and appear clustered on slender racemes., p. 17 They bear very regular, sharp, triangular, succulent leaves along their symmetrical columnar stems. The leaves are in a number of distinctive spiral arrangements. They are slow growing, multi-stemmed, and their longer stems tend to sprawl in their rocky natural habitat. Within the genus, various subgroupings can be r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Species - Flowering Times
''Astroloba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family (biology), family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)"Asphodeloideae" ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2016-06-10 native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Naming The name of the genus is derived from the Greek language, Greek words ''astros'', star, and ''lobos'', lobe, and refers to the starlike shape of the petals, which appear at the end of the tube-like flowers. Description They are very closely related to the genus ''Haworthia'', but are distinguished by their flowers being regular and not double-tipped. The flowers are small and white, and appear clustered on slender racemes., p. 17 They bear very regular, sharp, triangular, succulent leaves along their symmetrical columnar stems. The leaves are in a number of distinctive spiral arrangements. They are slow growing, multi-stemmed, and their longer stems tend to sprawl in their rocky natural habitat. Within the gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba
''Astroloba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)"Asphodeloideae" ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2016-06-10 native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Naming The name of the genus is derived from the Greek words ''astros'', star, and ''lobos'', lobe, and refers to the starlike shape of the petals, which appear at the end of the tube-like flowers. Description They are very closely related to the genus ''Haworthia'', but are distinguished by their flowers being regular and not double-tipped. The flowers are small and white, and appear clustered on slender racemes., p. 17 They bear very regular, sharp, triangular, succulent leaves along their symmetrical columnar stems. The leaves are in a number of distinctive spiral arrangements. They are slow growing, multi-stemmed, and their longer stems tend to sprawl in their rocky natural habitat. Within the genus, various subgroupings can be r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Cremnophila
''Astroloba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)"Asphodeloideae" ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2016-06-10 native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Naming The name of the genus is derived from the Greek words ''astros'', star, and ''lobos'', lobe, and refers to the starlike shape of the petals, which appear at the end of the tube-like flowers. Description They are very closely related to the genus ''Haworthia'', but are distinguished by their flowers being regular and not double-tipped. The flowers are small and white, and appear clustered on slender racemes., p. 17 They bear very regular, sharp, triangular, succulent leaves along their symmetrical columnar stems. The leaves are in a number of distinctive spiral arrangements. They are slow growing, multi-stemmed, and their longer stems tend to sprawl in their rocky natural habitat. Within the genus, various subgroupings can be re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Corrugata - Detail Of Inflorescence 4
''Astroloba'' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, subfamily Asphodeloideae,Stevens, P.F. (2001 onwards)"Asphodeloideae" ''Angiosperm Phylogeny Website'', retrieved 2016-06-10 native to the Cape Province of South Africa. Naming The name of the genus is derived from the Greek words ''astros'', star, and ''lobos'', lobe, and refers to the starlike shape of the petals, which appear at the end of the tube-like flowers. Description They are very closely related to the genus ''Haworthia'', but are distinguished by their flowers being regular and not double-tipped. The flowers are small and white, and appear clustered on slender racemes., p. 17 They bear very regular, sharp, triangular, succulent leaves along their symmetrical columnar stems. The leaves are in a number of distinctive spiral arrangements. They are slow growing, multi-stemmed, and their longer stems tend to sprawl in their rocky natural habitat. Within the genus, various subgroupings can be re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Corrugata
''Astroloba corrugata'' is a small succulent plant of the Astroloba genus, endemic to the Little Karoo and the far south of the Western Cape, South Africa. Naming This plant has been known by several names in its history. It was named ''"Astroloba rugosa"'' (Roberts Reinecke), ''"Astroloba aspera"'', and ''"Astroloba muricata"'', before it gained its current name. Description ''Astroloba corrugata'' is a compact ''Astroloba'' species, with slender, sprawling stems (up to 20 cm long), densely covered in spirally arranged pointed leaves. The leaves point outwards, and have slight non-marginated keels. They are green, but become reddish if exposed to direct sun. The outer side of the leaves are covered with distinctive tiny speckled "asperous" tubercles which (unlike '' Astroloba bullulata'') are the same colour as the leaf. These tubercles sometimes tend to cluster in longitudinal lines. These smaller, more evenly distributed tubercles (sometimes in longitudinal rows on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Spiralis
''Astroloba spiralis'' is a small succulent plant of the Astroloba genus, endemic to the southern Karoo regions of the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa. Description ''Astroloba spiralis'' is a compact ''Astroloba'' species, with upright, erect stems that are densely covered in pointed succulent leaves. Stems are roughly 15 cm in diameter, and reach a height of 200mm. The leaves are blue-green to grey in colour, they grow in 5 rows that sometimes form a gentle spiral. The leaves also have smooth surfaces (unlike the tubercled leaves of '' Astroloba bullulata'' and ''Astroloba corrugata''). Each leaf typically has an oblique keel near the point. The flowers appear in autumn (December to May). This species is easily confused with its close relative, the rare '' Astroloba herrei''. Both plants also have inflated, puffed up flowers (perianths). However the flowers of ''Astroloba spiralis'' are wrinkled (transversely rugose), and not smooth like those of ''herr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Herrei
''Astroloba herrei'' is a small succulent plant of the genus ''Astroloba'', restricted to the area around the Swartberg mountains, South Africa. It is listed as a Vulnerable species on the Red List of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Description ''Astroloba herrei'' is a compact ''Astroloba'' species, with stems growing up to 20 cm high, that are densely covered in pointed succulent leaves. Flowers appear from June to November. With its sharp, grey-green, keeled leaves, and its puffed up, inflated flowers, the species is easily mistaken for the closely related ''Astroloba spiralis'' species. However it is genetically distinct and can always be distinguished by its flowers and its phyllotaxis. Both ''spiralis'' and ''herrei'' have puffed up, inflated flowers, but those of ''herrei'' are smooth (unlike ''spiralis'', which has a wrinkled, transversely rugose, perianth). Other less reliable ways of identifying ''herrei'' are the fine, dark, longit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Congesta
''Astroloba congesta'' is a small succulent plant of the Astroloba genus, indigenous to the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Description ''Astroloba congesta'' is a compact ''Astroloba'' species, with circa 7 cm wide stems that are densely covered in sharply-pointed leaves, which sometimes grow in tiers, or in a rough spiral. The leaves are a glossy green in colour, concave on their upper faces, smooth, sharp with slight keels, and point upwards and outwards. Like its closest relatives - '' Astroloba foliolosa'' and ''robusta'', it produces cream-white flowers in the rainy season (September–January in habitat), tinged with green, on unusually short pedicels. However the inflorescence of ''congesta'' is often branched. It is easily confused with its close relative to the west, '' Astroloba foliolosa'', and the two species form a transition. ''Astroloba congesta'' can be distinguished by its larger, straighter, less compact leaves. Distribution It is indigenous to the Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Bullulata
''Astroloba bullulata'' is a small succulent plant of the Astroloba genus, endemic to mountainous areas of the southern Cape, South Africa. Description ''Astroloba bullulata'' is a small, compact species of ''Astroloba'', that reaches a height of about 30 cm. It has a dark green to deep olive-red colour. The matt leaves are covered with distinctive black tubercles (''"bullulata"'') that mostly occur on the outer side of the fat, shiny-margined leaves. The dense and compact leaves form a faint spiral in their growth, with each leave turned slightly inward and twisted towards the direction of the spiral. Each leaf also has a marginated keel, unlike most other ''Astroloba'' species. The inflorescence is upright and carries sparse brownish-green flowers with yellow tepals (Flowers appear in the dry summer, November to January). Related species ''Astroloba bullulata'' is closely related to the type species of the genus, '' Astroloba pentagona''. Both species have keeled-mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Spirella
''Astroloba spirella'' (="''Astroloba smutsiana''" nom. nud.) is a small succulent plant of the genus ''Astroloba'', restricted to an area of the western section of the Little Karoo, South Africa. Description In appearance it is superficially very similar to ''Astroloba spiralis'', with its sharp, spirally-arranged leaves. However the perianth of ''spiralis'' is both inflated and strongly transversely rugose. ''A. spirella'' is also a smaller plant and has leaves that are sometimes striped with longitudinal streaks near the tips. It can be distinguished from its northern relative, '' Astroloba pentagona'', by its sharply pointed leaves, with properly marginate apices and absence of tubercles or striation. The leaves get a reddish-brown colour in the sun. The flowers appear from January to April, at the end of the dry summer. Distribution It occurs in rocky ridges of shale in the Little Karoo - between Montagu in the west, Barrydale, and Ladismith in the east (where it gradu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Foliolosa
''Astroloba foliolosa'' is a small succulent plant of the genus ''Astroloba'' widespread in the arid parts of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Description ''Astroloba foliolosa'' has slender stems (4–5 cm wide), which can grow over 20 cm in height and sprawl over the ground. The stems are densely covered in rounded triangular leaves, which grow in 5 ranks and sometimes form a rough spiral. The smooth, glossy, grey-green leaves curve outwards, sometimes almost at a 90 degree angle to the stem. The leaves have keels and margins, with a flat or convex upper face. This species produces cream-white flowers in the rainy season (July to March depending on region), tinged with green or yellow. Like its eastern relative ''Astroloba congesta'' its flowers have unusually short pedicels. However ''Astroloba congesta'' has wider stems and concave upper faces to its leaves. Its close relative to the west, '' Astroloba robusta'', has no pedicels at all and longer grey-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astroloba Tenax
''Astroloba tenax'' is a succulent plant of the genus ''Astroloba'', indigenous to the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Description ''Astroloba'' species are all low-growing, branching, succulent plants. They have sharp triangular succulent leaves which have keels on their undersides. ''Astroloba tenax'' has curved, spreading leaves, which have a shiny surface, often with a variation of lines, spots or tubercles. It has extremely tall, thin inflorescences that are often branched. Each flower in tiny, gray and tubular, with a constricted yellow neck, and lobes which barely open. It is extremely variable in size and the ''moltenoi'' variety has the largest plants in the genus. ''Astroloba tenax'' is distinguished by its flowers and by the form of its glossy leaves. Distribution This species is restricted to a small, arid area in the vicinity of Prince Albert, in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. Varieties * ''A. tenax'' var. ''tenax'': The type variety. * ''A. tenax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
