Delosperma
Family:
Aizoaceae
Paul Rothrock
FNA
Resources
John E. Bleck in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Subshrubs
[herbs, shrubs], perennial or rarely annual or biennial, usually succulent, sometimes hairy or prickly.
Roots
fibrous [tuberous].
Stems
prostrate-creeping [erect, decumbent].
Leaves
cauline, opposite, sessile; stipules absent; blade variable, slightly connate basally or distinct, broadly triangular to cylindric, linear, or rarely flat, finely papillate.
Inflorescences
axillary or terminal, flowers solitary or in cymes, pedicillate; bracts 2, leaflike.
Flowers
showy, tubular, 1.5-8 cm diam.; calyx lobes 5, green, linear, unequal; petals (often including petaloid staminodia) 60-100 in few series, distinct, free, white, yellow, or red; nectary glands 5, distinct or rarely connate; stamens ca. 100, inner stamens erect, whitish; pistil (4-)5(-6)-carpellate; ovary inferior, (4-)5(-6)-loculed, slightly convex; placentation parietal; style absent; stigmas (4-)5(-6), subulate, sometimes caudate, apex acute, papillate.
Fruits
capsules, persistent, keels interior, expanding, usually with papery, marginal wings, membrane covering seed absent, dehiscence loculicidal, not separating into segments, not reclosing.
Seeds
ca. 100, pale brown, roundish, sometimes arillate, 5-15 mm, smooth to slightly textured.
Delosperma
capsules are the simplest in the family.
Species within checklist:
High Line Canal 2018 Botanical Survey
Delosperma abyssinicum
Delosperma ashtonii
Delosperma asperulum
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Delosperma basuticum
Delosperma brunnthaleri
Delosperma congestum
Delosperma cooperi
Delosperma dyeri
Delosperma echinatum
Delosperma ecklonis
Delosperma floribundum
Delosperma lavisiae
Delosperma litorale
Delosperma mahonii
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Delosperma nakurense
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Delosperma nubigenum
Delosperma oehleri
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Delosperma repens
Delosperma schimperi
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Delosperma sphalmanthoides
Delosperma steytlerae
Delosperma tradescantioides
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