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Pleiospilos simulans N.E.Br.

African Living Rock, Liver Plant, Liver Quaggafig, Split Rock Plant

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Pleiospilos simulans is a species of flowering plant in the family Aizoaceae, endemic to the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The species is assessed as critically endangered due to its collection as an ornamental plant for succulent collectors. It is a small, low-growing, perennial with succulent leaves and orange or yellow many-petaled flowers.

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

About the genus · Pleiospilos

Pleiospilos is a genus of succulent flowering plants of the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. The name is derived from the Greek pleios "many" and spìlos "spot". More on Wikipedia ›

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

Family
Aizoaceae
Described by
N.E.Br.
Native to
not verified
Wild records
4 in range· 4 open

Also known as Mesembryanthemum simulans Marloth.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Pleiospilos, 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: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeDistribution source did not answer.
Extinct inCape Provinces· recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“succulent perennial” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 4 openly licensed records untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them.

Papers naming this species

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

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GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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Other Pleiospilos 3 in the reference

Pleiospilos bolusii African living-rock Pleiospilos compactus Ostrichfoot Quaggafig Pleiospilos nelii Splitrock Quaggafig

History & registers

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