page_title: Tylecodon
section_title: Description and taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Tylecodon / Description and taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: Tylecodon reticulatus, im Neuaustrieb
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: The grounds for splitting Cotyledon to create the new genus included certain features of the flowers, but more conspicuously, the leaves of Tylecodon are deciduous in summer and they are borne in a spiral arrangement, rather than the opposite, decussate arrangement of Cotyledon leaves.
  The species are very varied, ranging from dwarf succulents such as Tylecodon reticulatus to Tylecodon paniculatus, which may exceed two metres in height.
  The new name Tylecodon, was apparently chosen as a syllabic anagram of the earlier name Cotyledon.
caption: Tylecodon reticulatus
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