Dorstenia barnimiana var tropaeofolia
| Section | Acauloma |
 Dorstenia barnimiana var tropaeolifolia Photo courtesy Mark Altenloh |
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Type |
Herb | ||
| Body | Tuberous, oval to pear shaped | ||
| Height | Lenght of leaf stems can be up to 12 cm | ||
| Leafs | Broad, shiny green round to slightly oval succulent leaf | ||
| Flowers | Stem up to 14 cm, bottom part wide up to 4 cm and thinning out to the top. Flowers vary in the number of appendages (fingers) on the sides, which vary between 2-14. | ||
| Reproduction | Unknown | ||
| Area |
From Cameroun to Somalia, southwards to Uganda
and Kenya; In wooden and open (often recently burned or grazed) grassland, often on shallow soils overlying rock; At altitudes up to 2200 m. |
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| Taxonomical details | D. barnimiana Schweinfurth var, tropaeolifolia (Schweinfurth) Rendle in Prain (Fl. Trop. Afr. 6: 71. 1816). D. peltata Engler (1911a), non Sprengel (1822), nec Fischer & Meyer (1846); D. tropaeolifolia (Schweinfurth) Bureau (1873); Kosaria tropaeolifolia Schweinfurth (1868). | ||
Dorstenia Tropaeolifolia, photo courtesy Mark Altenloh |
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