Conophytum saxetanum(N.E.Br.) N.E.Br.

WFO wfo-0000619074 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. a Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2015-11-27 / obs. 15903443
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. b Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15903236
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by leandra-k_89
fig. c leandra-k_89, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 89769958
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. d Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15903239
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by Brian du Preez
fig. e Brian du Preez, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 90686873
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by leandra-k_89
fig. f leandra-k_89, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 89769754
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by leandra-k_89
fig. g leandra-k_89, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 89767461
Conophytum saxetanum, photographed by leandra-k_89
fig. h leandra-k_89, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 89473865

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Native range 2 botanical countries

Regions where Conophytum saxetanum is native: Cape Provinces, Namibia Cape ProvincesNamibia
Native distribution of Conophytum saxetanum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Cape Provinces CPP AFRICA
Namibia NAM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 10 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Conophytum exiguum N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum graessneri Tischer
  • Conophytum misellum N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum namibense N.E.Br.
  • Conophytum saxetanum f. hallianum G.D.Rowley
  • Conophytum saxetanum var. misellum (N.E.Br.) Rawé
  • Conophytum vescum N.E.Br.
  • Derenbergia saxetana (N.E.Br.) Schwantes
  • Mesembryanthemum boehmerianum Dinter
  • Mesembryanthemum saxetanum N.E.Br.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.