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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: johnw on March 04, 2016, 09:35:09 PM

Title: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: johnw on March 04, 2016, 09:35:09 PM

The past couple of months we've been following Carl Wright's fascinating travels & discoveries on the Canary Islands.  This endangered endemic, Kunkeliella subsucculenta, came up recently. Is it indeed a succulent?  Family?

johnw

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: Maggi Young on March 04, 2016, 10:12:05 PM

From  a Springerlink note on a paper on two endemic plants of the Canary Islands:
" Kunkeliella subsucculenta Kämmer (Santalaceae) is a monoecious and succulent shrub, with myrmecophilous fecundation and a zoochorous dispersion of seeds (Valido 1990)."

  Not that I understand any of that!
But it's a great name, isn't it?!

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: Hoy on March 05, 2016, 08:41:09 AM

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/161943/0 (http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/161943/0)

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: shelagh on March 05, 2016, 10:48:23 AM

Thanks for the link Hoy, what a pity there isn't a picture of the plant.

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: Neil on March 05, 2016, 11:20:00 AM

a page with photos

http://www.floradecanarias.com/kunkeliella_subsucculenta.html (http://www.floradecanarias.com/kunkeliella_subsucculenta.html)

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: Maggi Young on March 05, 2016, 12:29:54 PM

More pix here :

https://tenerifenaturewalks.wordpress.com/tag/barlia-metlesicsiana/ (https://tenerifenaturewalks.wordpress.com/tag/barlia-metlesicsiana/)

http://www.arkive.org/escobilla-carnosa/kunkeliella-subsucculenta/image-G140549.html (http://www.arkive.org/escobilla-carnosa/kunkeliella-subsucculenta/image-G140549.html)

 Odd looking thing!

http://www.arkive.org/escobilla-carnosa/kunkeliella-subsucculenta/image-G140549.html (http://www.arkive.org/escobilla-carnosa/kunkeliella-subsucculenta/image-G140549.html)

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: johnw on March 05, 2016, 02:00:50 PM

A few screen shots from Carl's FB page.  I trust he'd be okay with this, great chap.

john

Title: Re: Kunkeliella subsucculenta
Post by: Tristan_He on March 05, 2016, 08:49:04 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on March 04, 2016, 10:12:05 PM

From  a Springerlink note on a paper on two endemic plants of the Canary Islands:
" Kunkeliella subsucculenta Kämmer (Santalaceae) is a monoecious and succulent shrub, with myrmecophilous fecundation and a zoochorous dispersion of seeds (Valido 1990)."

For goodness's sake! Myrmecophilous fecundation indeed! Why not just say ant pollinated?

Reminds me of my first A level class - animal taxonomy and diversity. The teacher handed out a worksheet on which was inscribed 'Phylum Coelenterata. Diploblastic acoelomate metazoans.'

Sometimes language isn't about communication!