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Dorstenia zanzibarica
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Section |
Kosaria |
Dorstenia zanzibarica
photo courtesy Mark Altenloh |
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Type
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Herb |
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Body |
Succulent, often pachycaul but not always. Errect
or ascending, branched, at least with arrested branches but
sometimes unbranched. |
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Height |
Up to 75 cm tall |
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Leaves |
Leaves in spirals, ofen crowded at the end of the
stem. Oblong to subovate to lanceolate to elliptic, 2-21 x 1-6,5
cm. Leaves non succulent, papery and yellow when dry. |
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Flowers |
Flower stem 1-3 cm long. Often several flowers
together but also found solitary. Triangular shaped but
sometimes almost square with four points. Flowers up to 3 cm
wide. |
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Reproduction |
Seed, plants seem self fertile. |
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Area |
In Kenya and Tanzania (also in Zanzibar?);
In forest and in succulent and deciduous woodland and thicket,
on cliffs, on and among rocks, epiphytic, or in ground humus;
At altitudes up to 2400 m. |
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Taxonomical details |
D. zanzibarica Oliver, Icon. Pl. 16: tab. 1581
(1886). D. holtziana Engler (1914); D. valkensii Engler (1894). |
Dorstenia zanzibarica, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh Dorstenia zanzibarica seed, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh Dorstenia zanzibarica, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh Dorstenia zanzibarica, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh Dorstenia zanzibarica, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh Dorstenia zanzibarica, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh
Dorstenia zanzibarica, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh
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