Galenia
Galenia pubescens
Galenia is a plant genus of the family of Mesembryanthemum plants ( Aizoaceae ). The botanical name of the genus honors the Greek physician, philosopher and natural scientist Galen.
Description
The species of the genus Galenia grow as shrubs or perennial plants. Your internodes are papillat or bald, and their branches often einseitswendig. The opposite or change-constant leaves are lanceolate to acicular. Your epidermis is covered with more or less low papillae that shine at first and later become white.
The sessile flowers are borne in cymes more or less rich, which can often be well distinguished from the sometimes large vegetative part of the bush. Your four to fünfzipflige (rarely dreizipflige ) Perigon is small. There are eight to ten stamens present, the stamens are extended to three times when open the dust bag. The dry, leathery, aufreißenden or not aufreißenden capsule fruits are three to fünffächrig. Occasionally some source tissue is present. Each compartment contains a hanging, kidney-shaped to rounded and flattened most of the seeds.
Systematics and distribution
The genus is widespread in southern Galenia Angola to Namibia and the South African provinces of Eastern Cape, Free State, Northern Cape and Western Cape. The plants grow mainly in dry areas in the lowlands, often in ecologically disturbed areas adjacent to roads in gravel soils.
The first description was in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in his work Species Plantarum. The genus Galenia is divided into two subgenera and include the following types:
Galenia subg. Galenia
- Galenia africana L.
- Galenia ecklonis Walp.
- Galenia hispidissima Fenzl ex Sond.
- Galenia namaensis Schinz
- Galenia procumbens L. F.
- Galenia rigida Adamson
Galenia subg. Kolleria Fenzl
- Galenia acutifolia Adamson
- Galenia affinis Sond ..
- Galenia collina ( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Walp.
- Galenia crystallina ( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Sond.
- Galenia cymosa Adamson
- Galenia dregeana Fenzl ex Sond.
- Galenia exigua Adamson
- Galenia filiformis ( Thunb. ) N.E.Br.
- Galenia fruticosa ( L. F. ) Sond.
- Galenia glandulifera Bittrich
- Galenia hemisphaerica Adamson
- Galenia herniariifolia ( C.Presl ) Walp.
- Galenia meziana K.Muell.
- Galenia pallens ( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Walp.
- Galenia papulosa ( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Sond.
- Galenia portulacacea Fenzl ex Sond.
- Galenia prostrata G.Schellenb.
- Galenia pruinosa Sond.
- Galenia pubescens ( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Druce
- Galenia sarcophylla Fenzl ex Sond.
- Galenia secunda ( L. F. ) Sond.
- Galenia squamulosa ( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Fenzl ex Sond.
- Galenia subcarnosa Adamson