Mesembryanthemum

Accepted species 105 Documented here 47 Family Aizoaceae

Accepted species 105 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. 676 documented
Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum L. 397 documented
Mesembryanthemum cordifolium L.f. 360 documented
Mesembryanthemum aitonis Jacq. 211 documented
Mesembryanthemum guerichianum Pax 88 documented
Mesembryanthemum canaliculatum Haw. 69 documented
Mesembryanthemum tortuosum L. 41 documented
Mesembryanthemum pallens Aiton 38 documented
Mesembryanthemum barklyi N.E.Br. 36 documented
Mesembryanthemum parviflorum Jacq. 36 documented
Mesembryanthemum grossum Aiton 29 documented
Mesembryanthemum sladenianum L.Bolus 29 documented
Mesembryanthemum junceum Haw. 28 documented
Mesembryanthemum tetragonum Thunb. 26 documented
Mesembryanthemum geniculiflorum L. 25 documented
Mesembryanthemum nitidum Haw. 24 documented
Mesembryanthemum paulum (N.E.Br.) L.Bolus 24 documented
Mesembryanthemum brevicarpum (L.Bolus) Klak 23 documented
Mesembryanthemum longistylum DC. 23 documented
Mesembryanthemum rapaceum Jacq. 18 documented
Mesembryanthemum splendens L. 18 documented
Mesembryanthemum noctiflorum L. 15 documented
Mesembryanthemum subnodosum A.Berger 15 documented
Mesembryanthemum vanrensburgii (L.Bolus) Klak 13 documented
Mesembryanthemum articulatum Thunb. 11 documented
Mesembryanthemum cryptanthum Hook.f. 10 documented
Mesembryanthemum digitatum Aiton 10 documented
Mesembryanthemum trichotomum Thunb. 10 documented
Mesembryanthemum pseudoschlichtianum (S.M.Pierce & Gerbaulet) Klak 7 documented
Mesembryanthemum coriarium Burch. ex N.E.Br. 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum granulicaule Haw. 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum hypertrophicum Dinter 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum lilliputanum Klak 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum napierense Klak 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum resurgens Kensit 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum vaginatum Lam. 6 documented
Mesembryanthemum longipapillosum Dinter 5 documented
Mesembryanthemum pellitum Friedrich 5 documented
Mesembryanthemum tenuiflorum Jacq. 5 documented
Mesembryanthemum lancifolium (L.Bolus) Klak 4 documented
Mesembryanthemum rhizophorum Klak 4 documented
Mesembryanthemum deciduum (L.Bolus) Klak 3 documented
Mesembryanthemum eurystigmatum Gerbaulet 3 documented
Mesembryanthemum inachabense Engl. 3 documented
Mesembryanthemum leptarthron A.Berger 3 documented
Mesembryanthemum nucifer (Ihlenf. & Bittrich) Klak 3 documented
Mesembryanthemum vanheerdei (L.Bolus) Klak 3 documented
Mesembryanthemum emarcidum Thunb. 4 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum dinteri Engl. 2 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum fastigiatum Thunb. 2 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum marlothii Pax 2 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum sinuosum L.Bolus 2 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum tomentosum Klak 2 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum ladismithiense Klak 1 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum subtruncatum L.Bolus 1 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum amabile (Gerbaulet & Struck) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum amplectens L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum archeri (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum arenosum Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum baylissii (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum bicorne Sond. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum bulletrapense Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum caudatum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum chrysophthalmum (Gerbaulet & Struck) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum clandestinum Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum corallinum Thunb. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum crassicaule Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum decurvatum (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum delum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum dimorphum Welw. ex Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum englishiae L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum exalatum (Gerbaulet) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum excavatum L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum expansum L. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum flavidum Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum gariepense (Gerbaulet & Struck) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum gariusanum Dinter 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum gessertianum Dinter & A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum glareicola (Klak) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum haeckelianum A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum holense Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum juttae Dinter & A.Berger 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum knolfonteinense Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum kuntzei Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum latipetalum (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum lignescens (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum ligneum (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum namibense Marloth 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum neglectum (S.M.Pierce & Gerbaulet) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum neofoliosum Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum occidentale Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum oculatum N.E.Br. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum oubergense (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum prasinum (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum quartziticola Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum rabiei (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum salicornioides Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum schenckii Schinz 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum serotinum (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum spinuliferum Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum springbokense Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum stenandrum (L.Bolus) L.Bolus 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum suffruticosum (L.Bolus) Klak 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum varians Haw. 0 below the evidence gate
Mesembryanthemum viridiflorum Aiton 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.