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Genus: Glottiphyllum

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots > Order: Caryophyllales > Family: Aizoaceae > Subfamily: Ruschioideae > Mitrophyllum group

Sixteen species, native to the southern parts of South Africa, especially in and around the Little Karoo.

List of species

List from Chesselet et al. (2003).

Glottiphyllum carnosum

 

Glottiphyllum cruciatum

Glottiphyllum cruciatum

Glottiphyllum depressum

 

Glottiphyllum difforme

 

Glottiphyllum fergusoniae

 

Glottiphyllum grandiflorum

 

Glottiphyllum linguiforme

 

Glottiphyllum longum

 

Glottiphyllum neilii

 

Glottiphyllum nelii

 

Glottiphyllum oligocarpum

 

Glottiphyllum peersii

 

Glottiphyllum regium

Glottiphyllum regium

Glottiphyllum salmii

 

Glottiphyllum suave

 

Glottiphyllum surrectum

 

Publications

  • Chesselet, P., Burgoyne, P.M., Klak, C., Kurzweil, H., Dold, A.P., Griffin, N.J. and Smith, G.F. 2003. Mesembryanthemaceae. In Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds), Plants of southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14: 633-738. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.