About Trichodiadema marlothii L.Bolus
Trichodiadema marlothii L.Bolus is a small, semi-decumbent shrub that typically reaches around 4 cm in height. Internodes are not visible on its stems. Its leaves have a papillate texture, and each leaf is tipped with a diadem of 5 to 10 large, white, radiating bristles. These bristles split and spread out in two directions, and the center of the diadem is brown. The species produces dark pink flowers, with filamentous staminodes at the flower center that have pink tips and pale bases. Petals are sometimes slightly emarginate. Both the flower stalk and flower base are covered in brown hairs. Its fruit capsule has six locules, and each locule has very well-developed covering membranes.
