PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / CARYOPHYLLALES / AIZOACEAE / RUSCHIOIDEAE / RUSCHIEAE / CONOPHYTUM / MINUTUM / PEARSONII
Plant caespitose, forming dense, overlapping cushions. Sheath pale brown to white, very shiny on the inner sur-face, stiff, long persistent. Bodies 12-25 x 8-30 x 8-30 mm, very broadly obconic with an ‘overhanging’ apex, top truncate or slightly, sometimes irregularly, convex, round in outline; fissure often eccentrically placed, surrounded by a translucent band, slightly depressed, papillate. Epidermis glabrous, pale blue-green to grey-green, nearly unspotted (except on the Bitterfontein-Kliprand road where some plants are well-spotted). Flowers autumnal, diurnal, scentless. Calyx-tube narrow, hyaline, whitish-green, with 4-5 deep green or reddish sepals 3-4 mm long, their translucent tips adhering to the developing corolla; corolla-tube 5-15 mm long, pink or magenta, petals 25-50 in 3-5 series, to 18 x 3 mm, pink or magenta, spathulate, with an inner series of white, yellow, orange, or pinkish staminodes, these acute and very thin, stamens ca. 30, short, hidden within the tube; style minute with 4-5 stigmas. Capsule 2-4 mm, broadly obconic, pale tan; seeds 0.60 mm long, finely pustulate and wrinkled, not ocellate. From: Hammer, SA. 2002. Dumpling and his Wife: New views of the genus Conophytum. EAE Creative Colour Ltd., Norwich. [All rights reserved]
From Quaggaskop up to the northern fringes of the Knersvlakte, and extends to ca. 20 kilometres east of Bitterfontein, where it becomes rather dwarf (var. minor, C. ‘parvile’, C. glabrum). It is sympatric with var. minutum at a few localities; more often they are separated by one or two kilometres and by their edaphic preferences, var. pearsonii favouring positions which are more exposed and possibly saltier. From: Hammer, SA. 2002. Dumpling and his Wife: New views of the genus Conophytum. EAE Creative Colour Ltd., Norwich. [All rights reserved]
120 to 580 m
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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
Conophytum braunsii Tischer
Conophytum pearsonii N.E.Br. var. latisectum L.Bolus
Conophytum pearsonii N.E.Br. var. minor N.E.Br.
Conophytum pearsonii N.E.Br.
Published in: Gard. Chron. Ser. 3, 78: 484 (1925)
Conophytum tubatum Tischer
Published in: Succulenta (Netherlands) 14: 81 (1932)
Conophytum glabrum Tischer
Published in: Cact. & Succ. Journ. Brit. 19: 15 (1957)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Caryophyllales
FAMILY Aizoaceae
SUBFAMILY Ruschioideae
TRIBE Ruschieae
GENUS Conophytum
SPECIES minutum
VARIETY pearsonii
15 results for Conophytum minutum (Haw.) N.E.Br. var. pearsonii (N.E.Br.) Boom
Barcode: NBG0092490-0 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 895 | 1969-11-24
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Barcode: NBG0092422-0 Collector(s) & number: Wisura, W, 1285 | 1970-3-29
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Barcode: PRE0798886-0 Collector(s) & number: Lavranos, JJ, 121 | 1959-1-
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Barcode: PRE0798887-0 Collector(s) & number: Leistner, OA, 729 | --
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Barcode: NBG0135871-0 Collector(s) & number: Mitchell, AR, 488 | 1979-8-
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2002
BOOK
Dumpling and his Wife: New views of the genus Conophytum Hammer, SAEAE Creative Colour Ltd., Norwich
2001
1993
1973
1973
1959
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Notes on Mesembryanthemum and allied genera Bolus, HMLJournal of South African Botany 25: 251-262
1957
1932
1928
1925
No results found for Conophytum minutum (Haw.) N.E.Br. var. pearsonii (N.E.Br.) Boom
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