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Delosperma litorale
(Kensit) L. Bolus
Family:
Aizoaceae
Delosperma
FNA
Resources
John E. Bleck in Flora of North America (vol. 4)
Stems
rooting at older nodes, prostrate, mat-forming, glabrous.
Leaves
crowded on short shoots; blade gray-green, white-mar-gined, linear, 3-angled in cross section, 2-3 × 0.5-0.6 cm, apex acute.
Inflorescences
axillary or terminal cymes; pedicel to 20 mm.
Flowers
3-7(-16), 15-22 mm diam.; calyx lobes keeled abaxially, 3-4 mm, apex obtuse, 3 lobes with papery margins; petals white, 8-10 mm; nectary glands distinct; stamens distinct, conic around stigmas; filament bases usually hairy; ovules 100; stigmas 5, caudate, papillate adaxially.
Capsules
5-loculed.
Seeds:
mature seeds not observed.
2
n
= 18.
Flowering late spring-fall. Margins of coastal wetlands, stabilized dunes; 0-30 m; introduced; Calif. (including San Nicholas Island); South Africa.
This species is known in the nursery trade in California as
Delosperma
`Alba.´
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