page_title: Anacampseros telephiastrum
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Anacampseros telephiastrum / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Anacampseros telephiastrum flower from near the town of Bonnievale, South Africa. Broadly ovate petals, pink or white colour and 30-45 stamens are diagnostic for this species.
context_page_description: Anacampseros telephiastrum is a species of succulent plant native to the southern Karoo region of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa, from Robertson in the west, to Somerset East in the east.
context_section_description: A small branching species with loosely-held 18mm long leaves. The leaves are brown-green with papillae and tiny points (mucros) at their tips. (Unlike its relative Anacampseros rufescens, its leaves are not reddish below.)
  An. telephiastrum has relatively few axillary hairs, and its hairs or bristles are shorter than its leaves or sometimes even barely visible.
  The pink flowers have 30-45 stamens and appear on a bracteose inflorescence.
caption: The broadly ovate, pink or white petals of an Anacampseros telephiastrum flower
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