View source for Delosperma litorale

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|accepted_name=Delosperma litorale
|accepted_authority=(Kensit) L. Bolus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Notes Mesembr yanthemum
|place=1: 135. 1928
|year=1928
}}
|common_names=White trailing iceplant
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mesembryanthemum litorale
|authority=Kensit
|rank=species
|publication_title=Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa
|publication_place=1: 153. 1909
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Aizoaceae;Delosperma;Delosperma litorale
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aizoaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Delosperma]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Delosperma litorale]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 89
|treatment_page=page 90
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Stems </b>rooting at older nodes, prostrate, mat-forming, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b> crowded on short shoots; blade gray-green, white-margined, linear, 3-angled in cross section, 2–3 × 0.5–0.6 cm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> axillary or terminal cymes; pedicel to 20 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 3–7(–16), 15–22 mm diam.; calyx lobes keeled abaxially, 3–4 mm, apex obtuse, 3 lobes with papery margins; petals white, 8–10 mm; nectary glands distinct; stamens distinct, conic around stigmas; filament bases usually hairy; ovules 100; stigmas 5, caudate, papillate adaxially. <b>Capsules</b> 5-loculed. <b>Seeds</b>: mature seeds not observed. <b>2n</b> = 18.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late spring–fall.
|habitat=Margins of coastal wetlands, stabilized dunes
|elevation=0-30 m
|distribution=Calif. (including San Nicholas Island);South Africa.
|discussion=<p>This species is known in the nursery trade in California as <i>Delosperma</i> ‘Alba.’</p>
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name=Delosperma litorale
|authority=(Kensit) L. Bolus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mesembryanthemum litorale
|family=Aizoaceae
|phenology=Flowering late spring–fall.
|habitat=Margins of coastal wetlands, stabilized dunes
|elevation=0-30 m
|distribution=Calif. (including San Nicholas Island);South Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Notes Mesembr yanthemum
|publication year=1928
|special status=
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|genus=Delosperma
|species=Delosperma litorale
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