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Aizoaceae

W/C = Wild Collected
Jensenobotrya lossowiana A.G.J.Herre

  • Query IPNI
  • Common Name: druiwetrosvygie
  • Family: Aizoaceae Rudolphi.

  • Country of Origin: Dolphin Head, Namibia
  • Habitat: coastal areas that receive frequent water from fog

  • Description: Jensenobotrya lossowiana is a shrub with thick woody, prostrate or hanging branches forming large dense mats 400–1000 mm in diameter. It has a fibrous root system and the branches are brittle and covered with dark brown to blackish, flaking, longitudinally fissured bark. Old branches are bare for up to two-thirds of their length and may be up to 70 mm in diameter. The younger branches have spongy internodes 5–10 mm long and up to 5 mm in diameter which are brownish at first and bear the remnants of old persistent leaves.

    Taken from Jensenobotrya lossowiana by Ernst J. van Jaarsveld - Kirstenbosch NBG - follow link for more detail

  • Culture: Grows in coastal areas that receive frequent water from fog. Water lightly but frequently.
Images of this accession: {and/or its current location}

 
      

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 200600047
  • Source: Matt Opel
  • Provenance: locality: E. van Jaarsveld s.n., Dolphin Head, Namibia
  • Accession Date: 05-18-2006
  • Bench: 2207 - XER:Namib / Karoo D
  • Qty: 2 confirmed on 09-29-2009
Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Caryophyllales
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  • Family: Aizoaceae
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References:

  1. Jensenobotrya lossowiana by Ernst J. van Jaarsveld - Kirstenbosch NBG
  2. Copyrighted images of Dolphin Head by Brian J. McMorrow (remote links)

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