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''Gasteria nitida'' is a succulent plant, native to the Eastern Cape grasslands of South Africa.〔(Gasteria nitida - SANBI Information page )〕 ==Description== The species name ''"nitida"'' means ''"shiny"'' in Latin, and refers to the leaf surfaces. The fat, shiny, spotted, triangular leaves grow as a rosette (although in young plants they are initially distichous). The inflorescence is branched. A smaller species, ''Gasteria armstrongii'', which occurs just to the west on the banks of the Gamtoos river, is often considered to be a subspecies of ''G.nitida''. However ''armstrongii'' has rough, tuberculate, recurved, purely distichous leaves, and a solitary unbranched inflorescence. ''Nitida'' can be distinguished by its triangular leaves which form rosettes when the plants are adults. Genetically, it is more closely related to the more restricted species ''Gasteria ellaphiae'', ''Gasteria vlokii'' and ''Gasteria glauca''. The flowers of all four species are also almost identical. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gasteria nitida」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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