Common Name: FIG-MARIGOLD or ICEPLANT FAMILY Habit: Annual, perennial herb, shrub, generally fleshy. Stem: underground to erect; root fibrous or tuberous. Leaf: generally simple, entire, flat, cylindric, 3-angled, or scale-like, generally cauline, generally opposite; stipules generally 0; blade papillate, pubescent, or generally glabrous, often glaucous. Inflorescence: cyme or 1-flowered, generally terminal. Flower: generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium present; sepals (3)5(8), often unequal; petals 0 or many in several whorls, free or fused at base, linear; stamens 1--many, free or fused in groups, outer often petal-like; nectary a ring or separate glands; pistil 1, ovary superior to inferior, chambers 1--20, placentas generally parietal, styles 0--20. Fruit: berry, nut, or generally capsule, opening by flaps or circumscissile. Seed: 1--many per chamber, generally ovoid, arilled or not. Genera In Family: 130 genera, 2500 species: generally subtropics, especially southern Africa; many cultivated. Note:Galenia pubescens (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Druce, a waif, may be naturalizing in southern California. Unabridged Note:Disphyma crassifolium (L.) L. Bolus (ovary glands convex, minute-crenate; stigmas dense-plumose; fruit chambers 5; seeds ovate, +- smooth), of tribe Ruschieae, an historical waif in California; Lampranthus coccineus (Haw.) N.E. Br.: (ovary glands fused; fruit chambers 5; seeds pear-shaped, +- black, rough), of Ruschieae, an historical waif or urban weed in California. eFlora Treatment Author: Nancy J. Vivrette, John Bleck & Wayne R. Ferren, Jr., family description, key to genera Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Perennial herb, subshrub. Stem: prostrate or climbing, base woody; green, papillate. Leaf: opposite, near inflorescence alternate; petioled; blade flat, lanceolate or cordate, generally glabrous, often glaucous. Inflorescence: flowers 1 [or whorled], axillary [terminal], peduncled [not]. Flower: +- 1 cm diam; hypanthium obconic; sepals 4, 2 larger, leaf-like, 2 smaller, awl-shaped; petals fused at base; stamens many, outer sterile, petal-like, inner incurved, white or yellow; ovary inferior, chambers 4, placentas axile, style 0, stigmas 4. Fruit: capsule; valves 4, lids 0, wings 0. Seed: flat, tubercled, black-brown. Etymology: (Greek: wingless, for fruit) Unabridged Note: Klak, et al. (2007 Taxon 56:737--756) concluded that Aptenia should be in synonymy under Mesembryanthemum. Aptenia lancifolia J. Bolus (leaves ovate-cordate; petals pink) spreading, quite extensive from old planting at Point Reyes lighthouse. eFlora Treatment Author: Nancy J. Vivrette
Aptenia cordifolia (L. f.) Schwantes
NATURALIZED Stem: 3--6 dm; nodes wide-spaced. Leaf: 1--3 cm, cordate, minutely papillate. Inflorescence: peduncle 8--15 mm. Flower: hypanthium 6--7 mm; sepals in 2 pairs, the shorter 5--7 mm (<= 12 mm in fruit), the longer +- 10 mm (<= 20 mm in fruit); petals <= 10 mm, purple (red in cv. 'Red Apple'). Fruit: 13--15 mm. Chromosomes: n=6. Ecology: Uncommon. Disturbed places, margins of coastal wetlands; Elevation: < 100 m. Bioregional Distribution: CCo, SCo, s ChI; Distribution Outside California: native to southern Africa. Flowering Time: Apr--May Synonyms: Mesembryanthemum cordifolium L. f. Jepson eFlora Author: Nancy J. Vivrette Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Aptenia Next taxon: Carpobrotus
Citation for this treatment: Nancy J. Vivrette 2012, Aptenia cordifolia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=13650, accessed on April 24, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 24, 2024.
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