Ceraria
| Ceraria | |
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| Ceraria namaquensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Core eudicots |
| Order: | Caryophyllales |
| Family: | Portulacaceae |
| Genus: | Ceraria Pearson & Stephens |
| Species | |
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Ceraria carrissoana | |
Ceraria is a genus of succulent shrubs, native to South Africa and Namibia.
Description
They are very slow-growing, semi-deciduous or deciduous, and succulent perennials with a few branches and many small, ovoid leaves along the stems. Branches are pale-barked smooth with papery cortex. These woody-stemmed desert shrubs have many short and ovoid gray-green leaves. Flowers, born on peduncles of 13-17 mm long, with some minute ovate bracts 4 mm long. Calyx with two phyllous, 5 rose-colored, obovate, 2 mm long petals. Five stamens with linear filaments.
Species
Ceraria carrissoana
Ceraria evora
Ceraria fruticulosa
Ceraria gariepina
Ceraria kaokoensis
Ceraria kuneneana
Ceraria longipedunculata
Ceraria namaquensis syn. Portulacaria armiana, Namaqualand ceraria (False portulacaria, Namaqua porkbush)
Ceraria pygmaea syn. Portulacaria pygmaea
Ceraria schaeferi
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