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Aloinopsis acuta L.Bolus

Aizoaceae

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Aloinopsis acuta is a small succulent plant that is part of the Aizoaceae family. The species is endemic to the Northern Cape. It occurs from the Roggeveld Mountains escarpment to the Nuweveld Mountains. The species is considered rare.

Text from Wikipedia, “Aloinopsis acuta”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Aloinopsis

Aloinopsis is a genus of ice plants native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Text from Wikipedia, “Aloinopsis”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Aizoaceae
Described by
L.Bolus
Native to
Cape Provinces
Wild records
4 in range· 0 open

Also known as Nananthus acutus (L.Bolus) G.D.Rowley.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Aloinopsis, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 4 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeCape Provinces
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-32.05, 20.15 · in the densest population, 3 records (75% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Aloinopsis acuta, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2025) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2024) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2020) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2020) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.Org User (2020) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Aloinopsis acuta: Burgoyne, P.M. & Victor, J.E.
IUCN (2015) · IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

Other Aloinopsis 7 in the reference

History & registers

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