PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / CARYOPHYLLALES / AIZOACEAE / RUSCHIOIDEAE / RUSCHIEAE / DICROCAULON / NODOSUM
Dense, spherical, succulent shrub, with very slender stems, up to 400 mm tall, 300 mm diam. Leaf-pairs dissimilar in shape, papillate, first leaf-pair of a season 3-6 mm long, 2-5 mm diam., on short-shoots only half the size, second and following leaf-pairs uniform, up to 28 mm long, 3-4 mm diam. Flowers with 4 sepals, petals nearly filiform, often ± curled, 18-20 mm diam. Fruit mostly 4-9-locular. From: Klak, C. 2013. Aizoaceae: Dicrocaulon. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 195-195. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Slopes or flats with quartz pebbles. From: Klak, C. 2013. Aizoaceae: Dicrocaulon. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 195-195. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Garies to Vredendal. From: Klak, C. 2013. Aizoaceae: Dicrocaulon. In: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 195-195. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
250 to 350 m
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
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
Published in: J. Bot. 66: 142 (1928)
Dicrocaulon pearsonii N.E.Br.
Published in: J. Bot. 66: 142 (1928)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Caryophyllales
FAMILY Aizoaceae
SUBFAMILY Ruschioideae
TRIBE Ruschieae
GENUS Dicrocaulon
SPECIES nodosum
6 results for Dicrocaulon nodosum (A.Berger) N.E.Br.
Barcode: PRE0547301-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Blerk, JF, 18 | 1988-12-8
South Africa, Western Cape, Rooiberg (net voor afdraai na Beeswater and Rooiberg).
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0201195-0 Collector(s) & number: Desmet, PG, 3467 | 2003-3-26
South Africa, Western Cape, Knersvlakte. Koekenaap, Namaquasands Minerals Separation Plant site, acid quartz patch, quartz & sandstone patch, W side smothered with sand.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0200604-0 Collector(s) & number: Desmet, PG, 1416 | 1997-9-21
South Africa, Western Cape, Namaqualand. Goud Vallei, Bitterfontein. Quartz outcrop to the S road (R358), to Kliprand on koppie with windmill. Slopes of Ribbokberg.
General notes: 30°56.11 S; 18°18.63 E. Lowland Succulent Karoo. Quartz lag gravel over quartzite. Well-drained, loam clay, stony soil. Full sun. N aspect. Moderate slope.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0200601-0 Collector(s) & number: Desmet, PG, 1367 | 1997-9-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Namaqualand. Bakoondkolk, Bitterfontein. Quartz lag gravel patches, N of dirt road on E bank of Bakoondkolk River. 31°01'19" S;18°24'04" E.
General notes: Lowland Succulent Karoo. Quartz lag gravel over silcrete. Well-drained, clay loam, stony soil. Full sun. SW aspect. Moderate slope.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0200602-0 Collector(s) & number: Desmet, PG, 1402 | 1997-9-20
South Africa, Western Cape, Namaqualand. Vlennies Kraal, Bitterfontein. Quartz lag gravel patches along dirt road. 30°56.62 S; 18°26.68 E.
General notes: Lowland Succulent Karoo. Quartz lag gravel over shale. Well-drained, loam clay, stony soil. Full sun. SE aspect. Gentle slope.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0801326-0 Collector(s) & number: Van Blerk, JF, 18 | 1988-12-8
South Africa, Western Cape, Rooiberg (net voor afdraai na [just before turnoff to] Beeswater and Rooiberg)
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2013
SERIES CHAPTER
Aizoaceae: Dicrocaulon Klak, CIn: DA Snijman (ed.), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 2: The Extra Cape flora. Strelitzia 30: 195-195
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2001
1997
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Revision of the genus Phyllobus N.E.Br. (Aizoaceae) Gerbaulet, MBotanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 119:
1978
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Hartmann, HEKO; Ihlenfeldt, H-D; Poppendieck, H-HMitteilungen aus dem Institut für allgemeine Botanik in Hamburg 16:
No results found for Dicrocaulon nodosum (A.Berger) N.E.Br.
Status and criteria
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Assessor(s)
Plantae Coordinator
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vorster, P.J. 1981. The correct author citation for Mariscus dubius. Bothalia. 13:443
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Vorster, P.J. 1981. The correct author citation for Mariscus macropus. Bothalia. 13:443
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