Tylecodon reticulatus

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Tylecodon reticulatus is a small to medium-sized, tree-like shrublet with a squat, basally normally solitary stem, up to 6 cm thick and 3–38 cm tall with a round sparsely branched crown to 30 cm in diameter with light brown bark peeling in strips. Young stems of Tylecodon reticulatus subsp. phyllopodium have residual leaf bases (phyllopodia) which remain visible for several years. Leaves are crowded at branch tips, erect to ascending, 5–40 mm long and 3–10 mm tick, ovate, linear-lanceolate to liner-oblanceolate, glabrous to glandular-hairy, coloured from bluish-green to heavily pink-tinged. Inflorescences are finely branched thyrses to 7 cm tall and in diameter, with many dichasia each bearing 2–6 spreading to erect greenish yellow, tubular or swollen at base flowers, 6–8 mm long, 2.5 mm in diameter, laxly hairy, spreading and becoming recurved. The flowers persist after blossoming, so they form a dense reticulate crown above branches and leaves, hence the species name.{{cite book |last1=Eggli |first1=Urs |title=Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Crassulaceae |date=2003 |publisher=Springer Berlin Heidelberg |location=Berlin, Heidelberg |isbn=978-3-642-55874-0 |pages=360–361}}{{cite book |last1=F. Smith |first1=Gideon |last2=R Crouch |first2=Neil |last3=Figueiredo |first3=Estrela |title=Field Guide to Succulents of Southern Africa |date=2017 |publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa |isbn=9781775843672 |pages=318–319}}

Succulent Karoo, quartz gravel flats of South Namibia and RSA (Northern and Western Cape).{{cite web|url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:276921-1|title=Tylecodon reticulatus (L.f.) Toelken|access-date=22 January 2022|work=Plants of the World Online|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Kew}}

• Tylecodon reticulatus subsp. phyllopodium (Harv.) Toelken — southern Namibia through to northern Namaqualand near Komaggas.
• Tylecodon reticulatus subsp. reticulatus — southern Namibia southwards to the western parts of RCA's Great Karoo towards Beaufort West and Graaf-Reinet.

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• [http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms/subs/tyl-ret-sub.asp Bihrmann]

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Category:Plants described in 1978

Category:Flora of the Cape Provinces

Category:Flora of Namibia

reticulatus

Category:Taxa named by Hellmut R. Toelken

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