Gasteria polita van Jaarsv.

Polished Oxtongue

No habitat climate 12 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Gasteria polita, the polished gasteria, is a recently discovered succulent plant restricted to a locality in the Afro-temperate forest of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Text from Wikipedia, “Gasteria polita”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Gasteria

Gasteria is a genus of succulent plants, native to South Africa and the far south-west corner of Namibia.

Text from Wikipedia, “Gasteria”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family

Asphodelaceae

Described by

van Jaarsv.

Native to

Cape Provinces

Wild records

9 in range· 2 open

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Gasteria, which is reliably 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: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

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 perennial” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-33.872, 23.401 · in the densest population, 8 records (89% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 468 km away. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 8 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 9 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Tony Rebelo, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3); (c) Jeremy Gilmore, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); Jeremy Gilmore, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2); Tony Rebelo, 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 Gasteria polita, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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