Delosperma sphalmanthoides S.A.Hammer
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Delosperma sphalmanthoides, commonly known as the tufted ice plant dwarf sea anemone or notchleaf ice plant, is a perennial succulent belonging to the Aizoaceae family. The species is endemic to the Northern Cape and occurs on the Roggeveld Mountains escarpment near Sutherland. The plant has an extent of occurrence of 56 km² and comprises up to three subpopulations. The species grows in shallow soil atop rocks, which protects it from crop cultivation; however, it is threatened by overgrazing and trampling by livestock.
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About the genus · Delosperma
Delosperma is a genus of around 170 species of succulent plants, formerly included in Mesembryanthemum in the family Aizoaceae. It was defined by English botanist N. E. Brown in 1925. The genus is common in southern and eastern Africa, with a few species in Madagascar, Reunion island, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. More on Wikipedia ›
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Cultivation
Grouped as a cactus or succulent, listed under the genus Delosperma in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Delosperma in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “succulent subshrub”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the key of the name Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 9407644 (Daggodora sphalmanthoides (S.A.Hammer) S.A.Hammer, 3 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.
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Related
Other Delosperma 44 in the reference
Delosperma aberdeenense Aberdeen Sheepfig Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael Wolf
Delosperma affine Aizoaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Andrew Hankey Delosperma alpinum Aizoaceae 
Delosperma ashtonii Flatleaf Sheepfig Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian du Preez
Delosperma basuticum Lesotho Intelezi Fig Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony Rebelo Delosperma bosserianum Aizoaceae 
Delosperma brunnthaleri Aizoaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Emőke Dénes
Delosperma caespitosum Tuft Sheepfig Photo: CC0, author not stated
Delosperma congestum Aizoaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van Berkel
Delosperma cooperi Hardy iceplant Photo: CC BY, Julien Lepage Delosperma davyi Aizoaceae 
Delosperma dyeri Tarkastad Sheepfig Photo: CC BY-SA, Brian du Preez all 45 ›Names & registers
Also known as Daggodora sphalmanthoides; Komsbergella sphalmanthoides. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Delosperma sphalmanthoides S.A.Hammer (plant_name_id 2759311), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 3 records of GBIF's key 9407644, Daggodora sphalmanthoides (S.A.Hammer) S.A.Hammer (Kew's file holds it as Daggodora sphalmanthoides (S.A.Hammer) S.A.Hammer (synonym under Delosperma sphalmanthoides S.A.Hammer)): the GBIF download; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelopewikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 972246-1, POWO 972246-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.