Stomatium suaveolens (Schwantes) Schwantes

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Origin and Habitat: Fraserburg, Sutherland, Williston, Northern Cape Province, South Africa.
Habitat: It grows in shallow pans and along their edges.

Description: Stomatium suaveolensSN|27224]]SN|27224]] is a dwarf, compact, succulent plant forming clumps that are flat to semi-globose in habitat. It is one of the Stomatium, with toothed leaves like open mouths.
Stem: The young plants are stemless, but they have short stems when old.
Leaves: 4 to 6 on a growth, 10-20 mm long, 9-15 mm broad, 7-9 mm thick, pale green, very fleshy, erect or spreading, spatulate with a thick, prominent chin at the apex, the leaf tips almost semi-lunate as seen from above, the backs very rounded and distinctly keeled towards the tip, the keel more evident in cultivation than in habitat, the edges and keel have either no teeth or one to five small, hardly visible teeth. Leaf-surface with numerous elevations and pale dots giving the leaf a rough appearance, epidermis with a thick layer of crystal sand, stomata only very little sunken.
Flower: Yellow with a delicious night perfume, tube 5 mm long, petals yellow, anthers yellowish.
Blooming season: The flowers are freely
Fruit: Base bowl-shaped, breaking off the stalk when ripe, ochre with red dots, top rising a little to the centre, septa with extremely narrow rims, rising to the centre, valve wings as broad as the expanding keels, narrowing to their bases, 5-5.3 mm in diameter.
Seeds: 0.75-0.85 mm long, 0.6-0.72 mm wide.

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