Shrubby perennials forming cushions when old; young stems smooth, bluish green
Leaves
opposite, fused towards base, erect, terete, semiterete or 3-angled, blunt, to 35 mm long, epidermis smooth
Flowers
in a many-flowered dichasium, pedicellate, up to 15 mm in diameter
Sepals
5, subequal, acute or pointed
Petals
yellow
Staminodes
0
Nectary
a crenulate ring
Ovary
with parietal placentas; stigmas 5, filiform, longer than stamens, green
Fruit
a 5-locular capsule, probably close to Drosanthemum type, woody, top convex; valves once opened do not close again; valve wings 0; expanding keels diverging from base; covering membranes short; closing bodies 0
Seeds
brown to black, surface rough
Flowering
in early summer
Distinguishing characters
:
Shrubs with smooth, cylindrical leaves
Flowers yellow
Fruit without valve wings, covering membranes partially covering locules
Nomenclature:
Scopelogena
L.Bolus
Bolus: 9 (1962)
Herre: 282 (1971)
Smith et al.: 338 (1998)
Distribution & Notes:
Southern Africa
: Species 2, restricted to two areas, one near Cape Town and another near Riversdale, Western Cape
References:
BOLUS, H.M.L. 1962. Notes on
Mesembryanthemum
and allied genera.
Journal of South African Botany
28
HERRE, H. 1971.
The genera of the
Mesembryanthemaceae
. Tafelberg, Cape Town
SMITH, G.F., CHESSELET, P., VAN JAARSVELD, E.J., HARTMANN, H., HAMMER, S., VAN WYK, B-.E., BURGOYNE, P., KLAK, C. & KURZWEIL, H. 1998.
Mesembs of the world
. Briza, Pretoria
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