Ice plant

Description

Corpuscularia lehmannii is a plant species of the genus Corpuscularia from theice plant family (Aizoaceae). The specific epithet lehmannii honors the German professor of botany in Hamburg Johann Georg Christian Lehmann. Corpuscularia lehmannii grows in a cushion shape, has a taproot and also develops some adventitious roots on low-lying shoots. The biangular internodes are longer than the triangular, glaucous leaves. Your keel is initially crooked, the tip of the blade is rounded. On long shoots, the leaves are usually 20 to 25 millimeters long and 8 to 10 millimeters wide and are spaced apart. On short shoots they are almost hemispherical and almost brick-like. They are 12 to 16 millimeters long and 6 to 8 millimeters wide and thick. The white to straw-colored petals of the flowers get longer towards the middle. The capsule fruits are surrounded bybracteoles at their broadly funnel-shaped base. They contain seeds that are 0.9 to 1 millimeters long and 0.6 to 0.75 millimeters wide. Corpuscularia lehmannii is distributed in the South African province of Eastern Cape near Port Elizabeth. It grows in Karooid vegetation and in rock crevices. The first description of the species as Mesembryanthemum lehmannii by Christian Friedrich Ecklon and Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher was published in 1837. Gustav Schwantes placed the species in the genus Corpuscularia in 1926. Nomenclatural synonyms are Delosperma lehmannii (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Graessn. (1934, nomen nudum) and Schonlandia lehmannii (Eckl. & Zeyh.) L. Bolus (1927). Included in the species as synonyms were Delosperma algoensis L.Bolus (1929) and Mesembryanthemum sexpartitum NEBr. (1908).