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) |
| 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: | 1/320 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
