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Tylecodon

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Tylecodon is a genus of succulent plants in the family Crassulaceae, native to southern Africa.

Species

Botterboom

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderSaxifragales
  5. FamilyCrassulaceae
Observations2,661
Observations recorded5,006

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
5
With media
4
Family
Crassulaceae
Collections
MO, K
Recorded in
South Africa

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents
  • Description and taxonomy
  • Pharmacology and toxicology
  • Status
  • Cultivation
  • Species
  • References
  • Bibliography

Tylecodon is a genus of succulent plants in the family Crassulaceae, native to southern Africa.

Until the late 1970s all these plants were included in the genus Cotyledon, but in 1978 Helmut Toelken of the Botanical Research Institute, Pretoria, split them off into a genus of their own.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tylecodon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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