Description
Because of its blooming habit, I thought this plant was Deuterocohnia schrieteri. This looks to be a form of the very widespread and quite variable Deuterocohnia longipetala.
One of the major distinguishing features between De. longipetala and schreiteri is that the first bloom on a new inflorescence will already have branches on De. schreiteri compared to De. longipetala which will always bloom with a simple (technical term for not branching) inflorescence and only on subsequent blooming/re-blooming flushes will any branches form. This plant seems to branch on initial bloom but the arrangement of the flowers put it closer to De. longipetala.
I suspect with more fieldwork, genetic testing, and a more thorough sampling of De. ‘longipetala’ we will find that there are at least a few cryptic species that will prove distinct and recognized as their own species. This could very well be the case with this plant… eventually.
Unfortunately I received this plant with no data, so I’m not quite sure what to call it. It usually produces pups on stolons. usually not long, ‘running’ stolons, but just enough to get the pups far enough away to get some light while still giving the look of a dense clump.
Plants will be offsets.
***Note: this plant was previously sold as De. schreiteri***
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