PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / CARYOPHYLLALES / AIZOACEAE / RUSCHIOIDEAE / RUSCHIEAE / CARPOBROTUS / QUADRIFIDUS

Carpobrotus quadrifidus L.Bolus
LC Indigenous Endemic
Morphological description

Succulent shrub, with trailing robust stems, up to ± 2.5 m long and 4-6-angled, winged, 15-20 mm thick internodes. Leaves 3-angled, 80-140 x 18-25 mm, glaucous, margins entirely cartilaginous. Flowers pedicellate, solitary, 120-150 mm diam., white, pale pink or magenta. Fruit 13-22-locular, fleshy, an indehiscent berry. From: Klak, C. 2013. Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 180-180. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Receptacle subclavate to globose, narrowed abruptly into pedicel. Succulent perennial with trailing stems to 2.5 m long. Leaves straight, 18-25 mm diam. Flowers white, pale pink or purplish, 120-150 mm diam., receptacle bicarinate, subclavate, not tapering into pedicel, top of ovary convex or flat. From: Klak, C. 2012. Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus N.E.Br. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 269-269. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Habitat

On coastal and inland sandy soils. From: Klak, C. 2013. Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 180-180. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Sandy lowlands. From: Klak, C. 2012. Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus N.E.Br. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 269-269. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Distribution

Namaqualand to Langebaan. From: Klak, C. 2013. Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 180-180. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

S Namaqualand to Saldanha. From: Klak, C. 2012. Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus N.E.Br. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 269-269. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]

Altitude

0 to 1200 m

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Residence status

Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature

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Names and Sources

Accepted name
Carpobrotus quadrifidus L.Bolus

Published in: S. African Gard. 18: 279 (1928)

Synonym(s)

Carpobrotus quadrifidus L.Bolus var. rosea L.Bolus

Published in: Notes Mesembryanthemum [H.M.L. Bolus] 2: 15 (1928)


Carpobrotus sauerae Schwantes

Published in: Z. Sukkulentenk. 3: 275 (1928)


Carpobrotus quadrifidus L.Bolus f. rosea (L.Bolus) G.D.Rowley, nom.subnud.

Published in: Natl. Cact. Succ. J. 13: 77 (1958)


Classification

KINGDOM Plantae

SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae

PHYLUM Anthophyta

ORDER Caryophyllales

FAMILY Aizoaceae

SUBFAMILY Ruschioideae

TRIBE Ruschieae

GENUS Carpobrotus

SPECIES quadrifidus

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Specimen records

Barcode: PRE0413994-0 Collector(s) & number: Marloth, HWR, 7622 | 1918-9-

South Africa, Western Cape, VAN RHYNSDORP DIV.; NIEUWE RUST

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Barcode: NBG0222139-0 Collector(s) & number: Low, AB, 11295 | 2005-7-29

South Africa, Western Cape, Witteklip 123, Vredenburg. 32°55.195' S; 17°58.749' E.

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Barcode: NBG0087930-2 Collector(s) & number: Stayner, F, s.n. | 1968-8-25

South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Province, Namaqualand, Truder [Studer's] Pass, between Garies and Platbakkies

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Barcode: NBG1467971-0 Collector(s) & number: Manning, JC, 3591 | 2016-9-22

South Africa, Western Cape, West Coast. Bokbaai.

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Barcode: NBG0094049-2 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 2284 | 1971-10-15

South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape (3117BB Lepelfontein), Namaqualand, about 9 miles south of Kotzesrus

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Barcode: NBG0021675-0 Collector(s) & number: Hall, H, NBG 785/55 | 1958-8-8

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province, Van Rhynsdorp District, Koekenaap

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Barcode: NBG0090644-0 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 1725 | 1970-8-16

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape (3118DC Van Rhynsdorp), about 6 miles north of Heerenlogement

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Barcode: NBG0021676-0 Collector(s) & number: Rycroft, HB, 1990 | 1956-8-24

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province, Malmesbury District, Darling Flora Reserve

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Barcode: NBG0094049-1 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 2284 | 1971-10-15

South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape (3117BB Lepelfontein), Namaqualand, about 9 miles south of Kotzesrus

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Barcode: NBG0083876-0 Collector(s) & number: Wiese, A, 9 | 1960-8-11

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province, Malmesbury District, Darling Flora Reserve

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Barcode: NBG0099090-0 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 1330 | 1970-4-26

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province (3118CD Van Rhynsdorp), about 6 miles south of Donkin's Bay

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Barcode: NBG0094796-0 Collector(s) & number: Axelson, H, 480 | 1971-9-5

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape (3318AA Cape Town), Lynch Point, Saldanha Bay

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Barcode: NBG0088795-0 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 910 | 1969-8-19

South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Province, Hopefield District, Stompneusbaai

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Barcode: NBG0754091-0 Collector(s) & number: Unknown, s.n. | 1955-9-24

South Africa, Western Cape, On roadside, ±1 mile from Bokbaai

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Barcode: NBG0087930-1 Collector(s) & number: Stayner, F, s.n. | 1968-8-25

South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Province, Namaqualand, Truder [Studer's] Pass, between Garies and Platbakkies

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Barcode: NBG0088129-0 Collector(s) & number: Stayner, F, s.n. | 1968-8-25

South Africa, Northern Cape, Cape Province, Namaqualand, Truder [Studer's] Pass, between Garies and Platbakkies

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Observation records

Date: 8/7/2011 12:00:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 8/30/2014 12:00:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 5/3/2021 10:48:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 4/28/2019 12:23:21 PM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 8/31/2010 11:03:00 PM

Western Cape

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Date: 9/1/2008 12:33:00 PM

Western Cape

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Date: 8/13/2021 11:11:00 AM

Western Cape, South Africa

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Date: 9/1/2008 11:22:00 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 5/22/2021 10:11:12 AM

Western Cape

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Date: 9/1/2020 1:03:23 PM

Western Cape, South Africa

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2013

SERIES CHAPTER

Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus Klak, C

In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 180-180

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

2012

SERIES CHAPTER

Aizoaceae: Carpobrotus N.E.Br. Klak, C

In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 269-269

South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria

2001

BOOK

Illustrated handbook of succulent plants: Aizoaceae A-E Hartmann, HEKO

Springer, New York

1993

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Studies on the Mesembryanthema (Aizoaceae) Hartmann, HEKO; Stuber, D; Wisura, W; Glen, HF

Contributions from the Bolus Herbarium 15: 1-107

1958

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Rowley, GD

National Cactus and Succulent Journal 13:

1928

BOOK CHAPTER

Notes on Mesembrianthemum and allied genera Bolus, HML

1-16

University of Cape Town, Cape Town

1928

PERIODICAL/JOURNAL

Zur systematik der Mesembrianthemen Schwantes, MHG

Zeitschrift für Sukkulentenkunde 3: 16-30

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Bibliography

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Von Oskar, S.S. 1980. Die gattung Leucas R. Brown (Labiatae) in Afrika und auf der Arabuschen Halbinsel. Stuttgarter Beitrage zur Naturkunde Serie A. 15:1-139

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Von Poellnitz, K. 1933. Anacampseros L. Versuch einer Monographie. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik. 65:382-447

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Von Teichman, I. and van Wyk, A.E. 1994. The Generic Position of Protorhus namaquensis Sprague (Anacardiaceae): Evidence from Fruit Structure. Annals of Botany. 73:175-184

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vorontsova, M.S. and Knapp, S. 2012. A new species of Solanum (Solanaceae) from South Africa related to the cultivated eggplant. PhytoKeys. 8:1-11

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