Aizoon schellenbergii
| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Full name: | Aizoon schellenbergii Adamson |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Skaapbossie, Basterskaapvygie |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Aizoon fruticosum L.f. (1782) |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Shrubs with sprawling branches, woody stems 15-40 cm high, young internode covered by short, white, appressed hairs, older internode glabrous and pale; leaves alternate, obovate, narrowing into a short petiole, folded upwards, 5-15 mm long, 3-6 mm broad; flowers on short shoots. apparently solitary, perigone with scattered uppressed hairs outside, glabrous inside, 3-6 mm long, stamens numerous; fruit obovoid, longer than wide, rounded at the top, 5 locules. (from Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae A-E, HEK Hartmann) A grey or white rigid woody erect or sprawling shrublet. Steins 15-40 cm high with ascending branches. Young part and leaves covered with rather short coarse white appressed hairs. Older stems glabrescent, pale-coloured and often pruinose. Leaves small, alternate, mostly on short shoots. Leaves oblong or obovate, 0.5-1.5 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, flat but usually folded upwards, acute at the tip, at the base narrowed to a short petiole. Flowers small, solitary but apparently grouped on the short shoots. Perianth 3-6 mm long, covered outside with scattered appressed hairs, the segments acuminate, united at the base only. Stamens numerous. Stigmas 5. Fruit obovoid, much longer than wide, rounded or slightly lobed at the top. The type is Dinter 887 Z. Dry stony slopes and river beds in S.W. Africa and the N.W. Cape. Very distinctive in habit. Much eaten by sheep and goats and often much modified in form. The hairs on the leaves are often reversed on the lower surface. (The SA species of Aizoaceae - Aizoon, Adamson, 1959) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 16 Dec 2008 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/250 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
