2405.021 Carpobrotus N.E. Br.

Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Description of the genus

Perennial succulents; stems trailing with internodes between leaves; base becoming woody. Leaves opposite, finger-shaped and 3-angled, joined at the base. Flowers terminal, solitary, showy; calyx 5 lobed. Ovary inferior. Fruit fleshy, indehiscent. Seeds obovoid on long thread-like stalks.

Worldwide: 25 species, main South Africa (from SW Cape to KwaZulu-Natal), 4 in Australia and naturalised elsewhere.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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Species	FZ divisions	Content
dimidiatus (L.) L. Bolus	GI,M	Description, Image

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Carpobrotus
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