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Mesembryanthemum digitatum
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Mesembryanthemum digitatum Aiton
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Name
Identification
Mesembryanthemum digitatum
Aiton
[family
MESEMBRYANTHEMACEAE
]
Related name
Mesembryanthemum digitatum
Flora
Entry for MESEMBRYANTHEMUM digitiforme Thunb. [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 digitiforme
Thunb.
[family
AIZOACEAE
], Nov. Ephem. Nat. Cur. v. 8. p. 6. App.;—Fl. cap. 412.
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM digitatum
Ait.
[family
AIZOACEAE
], Kew. 2. 181. Haw. Syn. 211.
Information
stemless or nearly so; leaves 3–4, approximate, terete, finger-shaped, obtuse, smooth, soft; flower subsessile. Root fasciculate. Old stem decumbent, brown. Leaves about one finger long, broad at the base. Calyx 5-cleft, lobes obtuse. Petals linear, white.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA in Karroo, between Olifantsrivier and Bocklandsberg. Oct. Novb. Thunberg (but now wanting in herb. Thunb.)
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