Lithops coleorum
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Lithops coleorum is a species of the genus Lithops in the midday flower family(Aizoaceae). The epithet of the kind honors Desmond Thorne Cole and his wife Naureen.
description
Lithops coleorum grows in groups of up to eight heads , but usually only two heads are found. The width of the heads reaches up to 21 × 14 mm, but mostly it is 14 to 18 × 8 to 12 mm. The heads are divided into two lobes by a gap , this is 3 to 5 mm deep, the profile of the head is cut off heart-shaped, the end surface is convex. The end face is flush or slightly raised and more or less elliptical. The praises are usually designed somewhat unevenly, not translucent and smooth. The end face is pale to pinkish-gray or grayish pink, beige or grayish yellow. The shoulders are colored similar to the islands or a little paler. The channels are indistinctly translucent, light to medium brown with a reddish or rarely greenish tinge.
The edges cannot be clearly identified and are irregularly subdivided by numerous branched openings in the channels. The inner edges are usually defined as interrupted or continuous narrow channels. The windows are usually not clearly defined and always more or less crowded and can often be seen as wide to narrow, very irregularly shaped channels. The channels are not indented and not clearly defined, very irregular and usually narrow and up to 2.5 mm wide. The few to many, small to large islands are relatively large and irregular, opaque areas that are not clearly defined. Rubrications do not occur, a large number of miniature windows can be found irregularly over the entire surface including the edges, islands and canals, occasionally they spread to the shoulders, but they are often found along and in the canals. They are dark green and usually clearly visible.
The small to medium-sized flowers are yellow in color, they reach a diameter of up to 25 mm, but mostly it is around 20 mm. The seed pods are usually sixfold, rarely fivefold and very rarely seven or eightfold. They are boat-shaped in profile and more or less flat at the top. The end face is broadly elliptical to almost round and measures up to 7.5 × 6.5 mm. The seeds are smooth, yellow-brown in color and have a brown tip.
Occurrence
Lithops coleorum is only known from a single location in South Africa near the city of Lephalale .
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- Desmond T. Cole, Naureen A. Cole: Lithops: Flowering Stones . Cactus & Co. 2005, pp. 104-105, ISBN 8890051175