Lithops - Au Cactus Francophone

unmittelbaren Nähe des Spaltes befindliche. Im Jugendzustand sind die Zipfel
des inneren Saumes mit der Kante der Endflächen verwachsen. Nachher, je
älter die Pflanze wird, sieht man, wie die Zipfel sich loslösen, und schliesslich
findet man nur noch einen dünnen Streifen zwischen den nun freien Zipfeln
und der Kante. Sie sind nun zu Flecken auf dem Fenster geworden.
Abbildung 86 zeigt einen groszen Klumpen, wie es deren viele gibt.
38. LITHOPS PSEUDOTRUNCATELLA
Lithops pseudotruncatella. (Plates 33, 33a, 33b.) Growths solitary or many
in a clump; top of lobe flat or slightly convex; sides grey with a tinge of
purple; top of lobe varying from pale grey to brownish grey with a slight
pinkish tinge sometimes; windows numerous, consisting of round green dots
(miniature windows); top of lobe divided into many irregular areas by branch
ing lines or dendritic markings, which are more or less confluent, forming
grooves, coloured rust brown, brownish red with a touch of purple blue along
the edges of the grooves; top of lobes slightly rugulose (uneven); in areas a
very large number of very minute white dots. The miniature windows either
small, round to irregular shaped, or windows confluent from larger windows,
which now and then occupy the whole upper surface and in that case the
miniature windows on the margin. Flowers yellow. (Fig. 89, 90, 91.)
South West Africa: Auas mountains near Windhoek, Lichtenstein;
Khomas Plateau; and to Ondekaremba; Friedenau; Witvlei; Friedental, to
Blumental; Onazuhetter at foot of Waterberg mountains.
figure 88 . lithops otzeniana nel
Loeriesfontein This photo shows the above species with so to say no margin
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