Acrodon

Acrodon
, illustration from Plantarum historia succulentarum, 1802.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Aizoaceae
Subfamily:
Tribe:
Genus:	Acrodon N.E.Br.[1]

Acrodon is a genus of ice plants from South Africa. It comprises 8 species, mostly endangered and all restricted to the southern Cape regions of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa.^[2]

Description[]

Species of Acrodon form dense, low mats or tufts of growth, and their leaves are triangular in cross-section. Another distinctive feature is that the leaves and flowers have a few tiny teeth along the ends of their margins and keels.

The white or pink flowers often have striped petals. The fruits are solid and persistent, with five deep locules.^[3]

Species[]

• (L.) N.E.Br. A common Renosterveld species that extends from Hermanus to Oudtshoorn.^[4]
• Klak. A rarer species restricted to quartz-fields in the and vegetation types.^[5]
• (Bolus) Glen
• (Bolus) Glen
• R.du Plessis. An endangered species restricted to quartz and silcrete patches near to the coast, in the Botrivier area.^[6]
• (L.Bolus) Burgoyne. An endangered species restricted to gravelly, loamy shales in the greater Breede river valley, from Robertson down to as far as the Potberg.^[7]
• H.E.K.Hartmann. An endangered species from exposed quartzitic slopes in the Agulhas region.^[8]
• (Mill.) N.E.Br. An endangered species restricted to shale Renostervelds in the far western Overberg.^[9]

Relatives[]

It is frequently confused with related genera that grow in the same region, such as Brianhuntleya or Cerochlamys.

References[]

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