Aizoon sarcophyllum
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| Family: | Aizoaceae |
| Full name: | Aizoon sarcophyllum (Fenzl ex Sond.) Klak |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Joubertsbrakbossie, Vanwyksbrak, Beslyn, Porselein, Porselyn, Joubertsbrak |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Galenia sarcophylla Fenzl ex Sond. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | A annual spreading to prostrate growing succulent herb with green to red stems which is covered with attentive glittering cells and white hair, can grow up till 20cm high. The leaves are oblong to egg shaped, fleshy with attentive glittering cells and white hair, can grow to 2cm long. The flowers are purple and compact on the end of the stems, growing between soft white hair. Flowers July to November. (from http://www.ispot.org.za/node/189547) Perennial, squamulose-pubescent; prostrate or suberect, primary branches opposite; leaves obovate or spathulate, obtuse, fleshy, papulose, upper ones smaller but similar, complicate; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, in the ultimate branchlets approximate, subspicate; calyx 5-cleft; styles 3–4. Whole plant greyish or pale, covered with appressed, hairlike papulæ, 0.5–1 foot high. Branches alternate, spreading, terete. Leaves 4–6 lines long, 2–3 lines wide, attenuated in a short petiole, upper ones 2–1 line long. Ultimate or flowering branchlets very short. Flowers alternate, scarcely 1 line long, pubescent on the outside. It comes very near G. crystallina, and is perhaps a 3–4 styled form. From G. portulacoides Fenzl. it differs by the thick, uniform leaves. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| 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 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
