Gibbaeum album N.E.Br.

Knuckle Humpfig, White Humpfig

No habitat climate 7 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Gibbaeum album, also known as shark's mouth mesemb, is a small species of succulent in the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the Western Cape province in South Africa. It is found in the northern parts of the Langeberg in the Barrydale region. There are two sub-populations known, but the population of one has substantially reduced due to road construction. More on Wikipedia ›

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About the genus · Gibbaeum

Gibbaeum is a genus of about 17 species of small succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the Little Karoo region of South Africa. The name "Gibbaeum" comes from the Latin gibbosus (hunchback)

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

Family

Aizoaceae

Described by

N.E.Br.

Native to

Cape Provinces

Wild records

15 in range· 2 open

Also known as Gibbaeum album f. album; Gibbaeum album f. roseum (N.E.Br.) G.D.Rowley; Gibbaeum album var. roseum N.E.Br.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Gibbaeum, 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: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeCape Provinces

Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-33.883, 21.1 · in the densest population, 15 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 15 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 9 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 14 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 openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 15 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: (c) Brian du Preez, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (3); (c) Rosario Douglas, some rights reserved (CC BY); Rosario Douglas, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

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

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