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Lithops dorotheae

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Lithops dorotheae Nel

Succulenta (Netherlands) Succulenta 1939 [5 Jul. 1939]; cf. Jacobsen in Beitr. Sukkulentenk. u. -Pflege, 1939, 71. ('non dorotea')

 

Origin and Habitat: Origin and Habitat: Vicinity of Pofadder (Bushmanland)South Africa.
Type Locality: 15km North of Pofadder (C124)
Habitat: Grows on fine-grained sheared quartz and feldspar rock containing feldspathic quartzite.

Description: Lithops dorotheae is a stone shaped succulent with a fissure across the middle with yellowish brown bodies, distinctly mottled with clearly defined reddish brown window.
Cole numbers: C124, C300.
Bodies (paired leaves): Small to medium sized, facial diameters up to 23 X 16 mm, mostly about 20-13 mm. Number of heads up to 7 or more, mostly 2-5.Yellow, medium to large, rarely up to 42 mm Ø, mostly 25-30 mm Ø. The profile is truncate-cordate; top surface mostly distinctly convex, fissure shallow, 7-10 mm; lobes conjunct, sometimes very slightly divergent at the top. The face is elliptic-reniform; lobes equal-unequal; opaque + transluscent; smooth. the margins are distinct and sharply defined, irregularly dentate or sinuate, usually with numerous peninsulas. The windows are seldom completely open, usually ± occluded. Channels broad to narrow, irregular. Islands few to many, small to large, irregular, usually sharply defined. Rubrications in the windows and channels, usually numerous bold regular lines, dots, hooks and stars, sometimes connected into a broken network. Dusky dots seldom visible even with a lens, few to many, scattered in the windows.
Colours: Margins and islands various shades of opaque creamy, yellowish or pinkish beige, sometimes tinged with green. Windows and channels various shades of transluscent greyish, brownish or reddish green, or greenish grey. Rubrications bright to dark blood-red, orange-red. Dusky dots obscure dull dark greyish green. Shoulders as for the margins.
Blooming season: Flowers appear in mid-autumn.

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