Sinocrassula
Yunnan China Crassula ( Sinocrassula yunnanensis )
Sinocrassula is a genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ). She also wears the German name China Crassula. The botanical name of the genus is derived from the Latin word " sinensis " for Chinese, and the name of the genus Crassula.
Description
The species of the genus Sinocrassula are hapaxanthe, annual, biennial or perennial, succulent herbaceous plants. They are glabrous or papillose and rarely pubescent. The plants are patterned with reddish brown thin strokes or dots. Their roots are fibrous. The during the heyday mostly resolution rosettes reach diameters of up to 10 centimeters, but are usually smaller. They consist of about 10 to 70 leaves. The fleshy - succulent, ungespornten, blunt to pointed, seated leaves are usually alternate and rarely arranged on opposite sides. They are 15 to 40 millimeters in length ( often 8 to 60 millimeters ) and 5 to 12 mm wide ( often 2 to 25 millimeters). The leaf surface is often speckled something.
The terminal and rarely lateral inflorescence is ebensträußig. He is the heyday of about 4 to 30 cm (rarely to 60 cm) long. The stalked, bell-like urn -shaped flowers are hermaphrodite, fünfzählig and haplostemon. They are 1.6 to 6 millimeters long. Her green, somewhat fleshy, erect sepals are fused together at the base. The free, upright petals are slightly oblong to lanceolate, fleshy and tilt up a little urn -shaped. They are somewhat whitish to greenish or pink, and more or less intense red, orange or brown speckled.
The fruit is a follicle upright. The contained more or less brown cylindrical seeds are about 0.5 to 1.2 millimeters in size, and have about 10 to 15 parallel to the longitudinal ribs.
Systematics and distribution
The genus Sinocrassula found in northern India, Bhutan, Tibet in the east and in the southwest of China. The first description took Alwin Berger 1930 before. After Joachim Thiede the genus Sinocrassula of the species:
- Sinocrassula ambigua ( Praeger ) A. Berger
- Sinocrassula densirosulata ( Praeger ) A. Berger
- Sinocrassula diversifolia H. Chuang
- Indian China Crassula ( Sinocrassula indica ( Decne. ) A. Berger), Origin: India, with the varieties: Sinocrassula indica var forrestii ( Raym. - Hamet ) SH Fu
- Sinocrassula indica var indica
- Sinocrassula indica var luteorubra ( Praeger ) SH Fu
- Sinocrassula indica var maculosa H. Chuang ex Thiede
- Sinocrassula indica var obtusifolia ( Fröd. ) SH Fu
- Sinocrassula indica var paniculata N.B. Singh & U.C. Bhattach
- Sinocrassula indica var serrata ( Raym. - Hamet ) SH Fu
- Sinocrassula indica var viridiflora K.T. Fu