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Mesembryanthemum anatomicum

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Name

Identification
Mesembryanthemum anatomicum Haw. [family AIZOACEAE ] Sceletium anatomicum (Haw.) L.Bolus [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name);
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  • Sceletium anatomicum

Flora

Entry for MESEMBRYANTHEMUM anatomicum Haw. [family AIZOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 386, (1894) Author: (BY W. SONDER.)
Names
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM anatomicum Haw. [family AIZOACEAE], Syn. 249;—Salm Dyck, fasc. 4. 32.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM emarcidum Thunb. [family AIZOACEAE], ! Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. v. 8. p. 9. App. Fl. Cap. 415.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM tortuosum E. & Z. [family AIZOACEAE], ! 2103.
Information
stem much branched, decumbent, as well as the branches slender, tortuose; leaves connate, crowded, erectish, oblong-lanceolate, acute, flattish, crystalline-glittering, when dead persistent; flowers ternate; calyx 4-cleft. Stem 1/2–1 foot. Leaves 3/4–1 inch long, 4–5 lines wide, when old the nerves and a pellucid epiderme alone remain persistent. Flowers large. Peduncles 1–1 1/2 inch, without bracts. Calyx pyriform, 4, rarely 5-cleft (Thunb.) Petals white, very narrow, as long as the longer calyx lobes. Styles 4, filiform.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Karro, in Bockland, and near Gauritzriver. Nov.-Dec. (Herb. Thunb. Sd.)

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