Trichodiadema burgeri

Trichodiadema burgeri is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Ladismith and Oudtshoorn regions, extending southwards towards Mossel Bay.

Trichodiadema burgeri
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Genus: Trichodiadema
Species:
T. burgeri
Binomial name
Trichodiadema burgeri

Description

A small, erect, clumping shrub. The imbricate leaves are tipped with up to 14 white radiating bristles (the typical diadems of the genus).

The flowers are pink-to-reddish in colour, with filamentous staminodes at the centre. The flower stalk and base are covered in thick hairs. Unlike the similar Trichodiadema intonsum however, it does not have stiff black hairs around the base of its calyx.

The pale fruit capsule has five locules (not six like T. densum or T. marlothii), each with very well developed covering membranes.

This species very closely resembles Trichodiadema densum, which is more compact and has six locules.[1][2][3]

References
  1. H.E.K. Hartmann and I.M. Niesler. (2013). A new morphological study of the genus Trichodiadema (Aizoaceae) permits the description of a new subgenus, t. subg. Gemiclausa. Bradleya 31:58-75.
  2. H.E.K. Hartmann. (2017). Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae F-Z. Springer Verlag
  3. SANBI Red List page


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