Juttadinteria
Juttadinteria decumbens
Juttadinteria is a plant genus of the family of Mesembryanthemum plants ( Aizoaceae ). The botanical name of the genus honors Jutta Dinter, the wife of the German botanist Kurt Dinter.
Description
The plants of the genus Juttadinteria grow bushy with three to five branches that bear every six to eight leaves, and achieve growth heights of up to 40 centimeters. The leaves are triangular, wide boat-shaped to almost linear. At the tips they always end in a triangular keel. The leaf edges are smooth to serrated, the epidermis is smooth.
The white flowers are hochblattlos have four sepals. The stamens initially form a distinct cone which develops into a cylinder later. The dark green nectary is formed as a ring.
The eight ( rarely up to twelve ) fächrigen capsule fruits are flat and funnel-shaped at the base at the top. Your ceiling fan are designed as narrow strips or short and cover the capsule never complete. They have wide, rectangular flap wings and no closure body. The papillose, pear- shaped seeds are brown and 0.7 to 1 millimeter long and 0.5 to 0.75 mm wide.
Systematics and distribution
The distribution of the genus Juttadinteria extends from Lüderitz in Namibia in the west to the east and from south to the far north of South Africa's Northern Cape Province. The plants growing on calcareous sand or clay and colonize levels or slopes. The amount of precipitation in winter is less than 100 millimeters.
The first description of the genus was in 1926 by Gustav Schwantes. The holotype is Juttadinteria simpsonii. After Heidrun Hartmann ( b. 1942 ), the genus Juttadinteria includes the following types:
- Juttadinteria albata ( L.Bolus ) L.Bolus
- Juttadinteria attenuata Walgate
- Juttadinteria ausensis ( L.Bolus ) Schwantes
- Juttadinteria deserticola ( Marloth ) Schwantes
- Juttadinteria simpsonii ( Dinter ) Schwantes
In a broader sense, the species of the genera Namibia and Dracophilus be counted to the genus Juttadinteria.