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Family: | Mesembryanthemaceae |
Full name: | Lithops schwantesii Dinter subsp. schwantesii |
Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AC) |
ID status: | Fairly certain |
Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
English common name(s): | - |
Synonym(s): | Lithops christinae de Boer Lithops dinteri Schwantes var. marthae (Loesch & Tischer) B.Fearn Lithops gulielmi L.Bolus Lithops kuibisensis Dinter ex H.Jacobsen Lithops kunjasensis Dinter Lithops marthae Loesch & Tischer Lithops rugosa Dinter Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. christinae (de Boer) B.Fearn Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. kunjasensis (Dinter) de Boer & Boom Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. marthae (Loesch & Tischer) D.T.Cole Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. nutupsdriftensis de Boer Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. rugosa (Dinter) de Boer & Boom Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. triebneri (L.Bolus) de Boer & Boom Lithops schwantesii Dinter var. urikosensis (Dinter) de Boer & Boom Lithops triebneri L.Bolus Lithops urikosensis Dinter |
Status: | Endemic |
Description: | Dwarf succulent. Leaves truncate in profile, faces flush, mostly elliptic-reniform, smooth to rugose, mostly ca. 25 x 20 mm, fissures shallow; margins often prominently banded, but usually rather fuzzy, not clearly defined; markings sparsely or obscurely reticulate. Rubrications usually an entire or broken network of bold lines, fairly regular, occasionally in a honeycomb pattern, sometimes reduced to a number of isolated short lines, dashes and dots, dull to bright blood-red or purplish red. Flowers yellow, often with longish pedicels. Capsule 5-locular, top flat to slightly convex (Cole, 1988). (from Red Data Book of Namibian Plants, SJ Loots) |
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: | JS Steyn |
Date of photograph: | - - |
Camera make: | - |
Camera model: | - |
Lens aperture: | - |
Shutter speed: | - |
ISO speed: | - |
Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
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