| Includes: |
Form: |
Locality |
| cooperi (festivus) (pachylophus): |
Variable. Leaves pale, smooth,
with or without spots. Crispate horny margin at the apex. |
Zuurberg, Graff-Reinet and
Queenstown areas. |
|
| cristatus: |
Variable species with short stems
bearing ginger-brown aerial roots. Epidermis is fuzzy to sticky,
leaf-ends are undulating and with horny margins. |
Southern Cape. |
|
| cr. v. clavifolius (kesselringianus) (nussbaumerianus) (poellnitzianus): |
Leaves narrower than the type. |
Restricted and not common, between
Alexandria, Grahamstown and East London. |
|
|
cr. v. mzimvubuensis |
Light-green, flattened waxy leaves
with an almost entire horny margin, but very few glandular hairs and
aerial roots. |
Umzimvubu Rivier,
Transkei. |
|
|
cr. v.
schonlandii: |
Narrow petioles to the sticky
leaves, stems branched and with aerial roots. Rare. |
Lower Baviaanskloof and west of
Humandorp. |
|
| cr. v. zeyheri: |
With no aerial roots. Leaves
without sticky hairs and with horny, undulating margin at the tip. |
Cape, Kenko (or Kinko) River and,
more recently, in the Kougaberg and Baviaanskloof. |
|
| leucophyllus: |
Distinctive, white farina, or
coating, covers the leaves and inflorescence of this popular species.
With entire horny margin and occasional spots to the leaf. |
Between Robertson and Montague,
and the Little Karoo. |
|
|
marianiae: |
Short stems, fibrous roots and
leaves with a horny ridge around the, usually, distal end of the plain
to spotted leaf. |
Clanwilliam to Klawer, Pakhuis
Pass, Vredendal. |
|
| mar. 'alveolatus': |
Short, erect, branching stem over
tuberous root. Leaves usually plain, roughened, light green with
thickened apical margin and short petiole or stalk. |
Namaqualand, N. of Springbok. |
|
| mar. 'antidorcatum': |
Longish, slender, colourful
leaves. |
South of Springbok. |
|
| mar. 'blosianus': |
Low-growing, short-stemmed over
tuberous root. Leaves grey-green tinged reddish, unspotted and with a
thick margin around the flattened, distal half. |
Namaqualand, Richtersveld. |
|
| mar. 'Bryan Makin': |
Distinctive with short,
grey-green, roughened leaves having red markings and a horny margin
around the flattened, distal half. |
Richtersveld. |
|
| mar. 'geyeri': |
Distinctive with short, erect stem
and tuberous root. Leaves whitish-grey with reddish-brown spotting. Apex
rounded. |
South West Africa, south of
Luderitz. |
|
| mar. 'hallii': |
Difficult, slow-growing and rare
in cultivation. Short, thick stems over tuberous roots. Leaves,
sometimes spotted, grey-brown with whitish bloom and distal, marginal
ridge. |
South of Orange River, Namibia,
Cape Province. |
|
| mar. 'herrei': |
Small, slow-growing and uncommon
with green to deep red, roughened leaves. |
Cape, Namaqualand, Nutabooi,
Buffels River. |
|
|
mar. 'immaculatus': |
Smooth and unspotted with a horny
margin extending up to a third of the way down the leaves from the tip. |
Vredendal. |
|
| mar. 'kubusensis': |
Short branches with thick stems
and fibrous roots. Plain, brownish leaves, occasionally spotted and with
a slight marginal ridge at the apex. |
Richtersveld. |
|
| mar. 'little spheroid': |
Smooth, green/brown, rounded, matt
leaves with a short petiole. A slight margin extends a third of the way
down from the tip. |
Little Namaqualand near Naroegas,
west of Springbok. |
|
|
mar. 'multicolor': |
Unspotted but roughened leaves
varying from green to red. Roots tuberous, stem short. |
Calitzdorp? - similar plants west
of Maerpoort. |
|
| mar. 'tanqua': |
Distinctive small form. Short or
no stem with spreading rootstock. Leaves small, matt, grey/green with no
markings. |
Western and Northern Cape
Province. |
