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Genus: Odontophorus

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 > Leipoldtia group

Four species, endemic to the Northern Cape, South Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Chesselet et al. (2003).

Odontophorus angustifolius

Odontophorus angustifolius subsp. protoparcoides

Odontophorus marlothii

 

Odontophorus nanus

 

Odontophorus pusillus

 

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.