| Trichodiadema mirabile | |
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| Juvenile T. mirabile in cultivation | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Genus: | Trichodiadema |
| Species: | T. mirabile |
| Binomial name | |
| Trichodiadema mirabile | |
Trichodiadema mirabile is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema , native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Laingsburg area and especially from south-facing slopes.
A small, erect shrublet, reaching up to 11 cm.
The leaves are erect, stiff and papillate, and each leaf is tipped with dark-brown, erect-inclining bristles.
The flowers are white to pale-cream in colour, with white filamentous staminodes at the centre, and are on very short stalks (subsessile).
The fruit capsule has six locules, each locule with distinctive V-shaped covering membranes. [2]
It very closely resembles Trichodiadema orientale , a species from the Eastern Cape, which however has 5 locules, longer papillae on its bladder cells, and has flowers that are more pinkish-white (sometimes white with pinkish petal tips). Trichodiadema orientale also has longer flower stalks, while those of T. mirabile are so short that they are usually not visible.
Trichodiadema mirabile, T. orientale and T. hallii are the only three species in the genus to have erect-inclining diadem bristles. [3]
Trichodiadema is a genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae.
Trichodiadema bulbosum is a succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to South Africa.
Trichodiadema marlothii is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Robertson and Swellendam areas.
Trichodiadema intonsum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Trichodiadema burgeri is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is known from the Ladismith and Oudtshoorn regions, extending southwards towards Mossel Bay.
Trichodiadema densum is a succulent flowering plant in the fig-marigold family Aizoaceae, native to the Willowmore region of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Trichodiadema attonsum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is common among pale quartzite rocks in the western Little Karoo region. Unlike most other species in its genus, it does not have a typical diadem on its leaf-tips.
Trichodiadema gracile is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is common on dry, rocky hillsides in the Overberg region.
Trichodiadema calvatum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is found in shales, in open rocky areas within Renosterveld vegetation.
Trichodiadema occidentale is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it grows in rocky shale or limestone hills in the Overberg region, and especially in disturbed areas.
Trichodiadema pygmaeum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is found in fine-grained soils in the regions of Bredasdorp and Swellendam.
Trichodiadema hallii is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Ladismith and Calitzdorp areas of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Trichodiadema strumosum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Western Cape Province, South Africa, where it is found in loam-based soils in the Fynbos vegetation of the Swellendam region.
Drosanthemum quadratum is a succulent plant in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae, indigenous to the Overberg region of the Western Cape Province, South Africa.
Trichodiadema barbatum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Trichodiadema introrsum is succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. It occurs in the vicinity of the towns of Bedford, Grahamstown and Kirkwood.
Trichodiadema setuliferum is a succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, native to the Karoo regions of the Cape Provinces, South Africa.
Trichodiadema pomeridianum is a succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, widespread in the arid central Karoo regions of South Africa.
Trichodiadema orientale is a succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, widespread in the arid areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
Trichodiadema rogersiae is a succulent plant of the genus Trichodiadema, indigenous to arid areas of the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.
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