Conicosia: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Aizoaceae
- Genus
- Conicosia
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Conicosia
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Conicosia
Conicosia is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. They are known commonly as narrow-leafed ice plants. These are relatively short-lived perennials with underground stems and tentacle-shaped, dull-pointed triangular leaves. They bear large tubular flowers often exceeding 10 centimeters in width, with up to 250 fringelike petals arranged in a ring around a center with hundreds of stamens. The fruit is a capsule which opens when it gets wet, slowly releasing the hundreds of tiny seeds as they fall out of its drying flesh.
Two species are accepted.
- Conicosia elongata (Haw.) Schwantes
- Conicosia pugioniformis (L.) N.E.Br.
Conicosia in languages:
- Chinese
- 劍蘇花屬
- English
- Conefigs
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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