Glottiphyllum longum(Haw.) N.E.Br.

WFO wfo-0000704149 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Shaun Swanepoel
fig. a Shaun Swanepoel, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-09-24 / obs. 160051102
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Christina
fig. b Christina, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 153134486
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by douglaseustonbrown
fig. c douglaseustonbrown, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 119345891
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Dave Brown
fig. d Dave Brown, CC0 1.0 / obs. 92970052
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. e Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 16040891
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. f Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15764719
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Tony Rebelo
fig. g Tony Rebelo, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15764534
Glottiphyllum longum, photographed by Andrew Hankey
fig. h Andrew Hankey, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 15102308

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000076645
Filed as
Glottiphyllum longum (Haw.) N.E.Br.
Det. by
Hartmann
Collected
not recorded
Origin
ZA
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Glottiphyllum longum is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Glottiphyllum longum, 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

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.

Where it actually grows measured, from 157 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 7.2 °C 10.8 °C 11.8 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 22.8 °C 25.4 °C 28.7 °C
Annual rainfall 445 mm 527 mm 698 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 76 mm 94 mm 133 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 157 research-grade observations of Glottiphyllum longum that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 42 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.

  • Glottiphyllum cultratum (Salm-Dyck) N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum erectum N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum latum (Haw.) N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum latum var. cultratum (Salm-Dyck) N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum longum var. hamatum N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum longum var. heterophyllum (Haw.) G.D.Rowley
  • Glottiphyllum longum var. longum
  • Glottiphyllum obliquum (Willd.) N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum propinquum N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum pustulatum (Haw.) N.E.Br.
  • Glottiphyllum uncatum (Salm-Dyck) N.E.Br.
  • Mesembryanthemum adscendens Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum angustum var. heterophyllum Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum brevifolium Eckl. & Zeyh.
  • Mesembryanthemum cultratum Salm-Dyck
  • Mesembryanthemum depressum Sims
  • Mesembryanthemum heterophyllum Andrews
  • Mesembryanthemum latum Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum latum var. breve Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum linguaeforme var. assurgens Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum linguaeforme var. longum (Haw.) A.Berger
  • Mesembryanthemum linguaeforme var. prostratum Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum lingueforme Haw.
  • Mesembryanthemum linguiforme subsp. latum (Haw.) Pers.

and 18 more.

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.