Comments
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This species is known in the nursery trade in California as Delosperma ‘Alba.’
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Description
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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. 2n = 18.
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Distribution
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introduced; Calif. (including San Nicholas Island); South Africa.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering late spring-fall.
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Habitat
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Margins of coastal wetlands, stabilized dunes; 0-30m.
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Synonym
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Mesembryanthemum litorale Kensit, Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 1: 153. 1909
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