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Family: Aizoaceae
Mesembryanthemum aitonis

Citation: Jacq., Hort. Bot. Vind. 3:8 (1776).

Synonymy: Cryophytum aitonis (Jacq.)N.E. Br., Gdnrs' Chron. 84:128 (1928); Gasoul aitonis (Jacq.)H. Eichler, Suppl. 133 (1965); M. angulatum Thunb., Prod. Pl. Cap. 91 (1800).

Common name: Angled iceplant.

Description:
Prostrate annual or biennial thinly papillose shrub; stems and branches somewhat angular; leaves flat, thick, ovate to spathulate, on short broad petioles, opposite on the stem, alternate on the flowering branches.

Flowers on slender peduncles at the ends of short leafy branches; perianth 10-15 mm long, papillose; perianth lobes unequal, the 3 longer ones thick and obtuse, the other 2 shorter and acute; ovary swollen and 5-angled; petaloid staminodes scarcely longer than the perianth.

Capsule with 5 erect white keeled valves before opening; seeds orbicular, reddish, concentrically granular, c. 1 mm diam.

Published illustration: Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 294.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NU, GT, FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL.   W.Aust.; N.S.W.; Vic.   Native to South Africa.

Conservation status: naturalised

Flowering time: July — Dec.


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