Didymaotus lapidiformis, Cape Winelands, ZA-WC, ZA

Didymaotus lapidiformis (Marloth) N.E.Br.

Aizoaceae

No habitat climate 8 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Didymaotus is a monotypic genus of flowering plant belonging to the family Aizoaceae, containing the single species Didymaotus lapidiformis. The plant is also known by the names stone plant and beeskloutjie. It occurs natively in the arid regions of Tanqua Karoo, near Ceres in the Western Cape. The generic name is taken from the Greek words didymos, meaning double, and aotus, meaning flower; the plant that bears two flowers. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Didymaotus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Didymaotus

The opening of Wikipedia, “Didymaotus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Aizoaceae

Described by

(Marloth) N.E.Br.

Native to

Cape Provinces

Wild records

10 in range· 1 open

Also known as Mesembryanthemum lapidiforme Marloth.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by Aizoaceae, which is usually but not always one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 10 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeCape Provinces

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-33.128, 20.062 · in the densest population, 10 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 10 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker 5 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 10 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.

The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 10 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) marius, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) James Deacon, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4); marius, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA, iNaturalist via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Didymaotus lapidiformis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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