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Lithops herrei L.Bolus

Aizoaceae

No habitat climate 8 photographs Cactus or succulent

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Summary

Lithops herrei is a species of succulent plant under the genus Lithops and family Aizoaceae. It derives its name from Adolar Herre, a German botanist of the 20th century.

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

About the genus · Lithops

Lithops is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae. Members of the genus are native to southern Africa. They avoid being eaten by herbivores with their camouflage as small stones, and are often known as pebble plants or living stones.

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

Family

Aizoaceae

Described by

L.Bolus

Native to

Cape Provinces, Namibia

Wild records

53 in range· 5 open

Also known as Lithops geyeri Nel; Lithops herrei var. geyeri (Nel) de Boer & Boom; Lithops herrei var. herrei; Lithops herrei var. plena L.Bolus; Lithops hillii L.Bolus and 1 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Lithops, 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, Namibia

Kew's description“succulent perennial” · “desert or dry shrubland”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Map marker-28.5, 16.617 · in the densest population, 53 records (100% of those in range)

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 53 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 17 km away. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 52 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 53 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (3); Marcus Tamura, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF (4).

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 Lithops herrei, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

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