Operation Wildflower Mobi
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
Home Home » GENERA T-Z » Trachyandra » Trachyandra tortilis
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 10,642
Total number of hits on all images: 5,327,303

Trachyandra tortilis

Trachyandra tortilis
Previous Previous
Image 52 of 53  
 
  • Trachyandra muricata leaves
  • Trachyandra muricata scape and buds
  • Trachyandra revoluta
  • Trachyandra revoluta buds
  • Trachyandra revoluta flower
  • Trachyandra revoluta flower
  • Trachyandra revoluta flower from behind
  • Trachyandra revoluta leaves
  • Trachyandra revoluta leaves stylish
  • Trachyandra species maybe muricata
  • Trachyandra species, broad flat shiny leaves
  • Trachyandra species, broad flat shiny leaves
  • Trachyandra species, broad flat shiny leaves
  • Trachyandra species, broad flat shiny leaves
  • Trachyandra spiralling leaves
  • Trachyandra tortilis
  • Trachyandra tortilis

Image information

Description

Trachyandra tortilis is a small rhizomatous plant of Namaqualand, but also more widely along the west coast from the Richtersveld to the Knersvlakte and Saldanha. The plant grows in deep sandy or silty soils, among stones or in river beds. It reaches about 10 cm to 15 cm in height.

This is one of the bulbous species of this dry area with strap-like leaves that tend to become spirally twisted, tightly coiled or crisped. The specimen in the photo displays only limited signs of the crinkly tendency: zigzag in places, straight and smooth elsewhere. Some specimens show much more of this leaf shape. Leaf margins may have hard, cartilaginous ridges.

The plant is considered to have a stable population in its distribution early in the twenty first century (www.flickr.com; http://redlist.sanbi.org).

Hits
11419
Photographer
Judd Kirkel
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery