Lithops hookeri(A.Berger) Schwantes

WFO wfo-0000360448 Accepted WFO 2026-06 3 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–c · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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.

Lithops hookeri, photographed by Ricus Nel
fig. a Ricus Nel, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-12-14 / obs. 172358739
Lithops hookeri, photographed by Ricus Nel
fig. b Ricus Nel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172358750
Lithops hookeri, photographed by Ricus Nel
fig. c Ricus Nel, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172358762

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Lithops hookeri is native: Cape Provinces Cape Provinces
Native distribution of Lithops hookeri, 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.

Also published as 17 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.

  • Lithops aurantiaca L.Bolus
  • Lithops dabneri L.Bolus
  • Lithops hookeri var. dabneri (L.Bolus) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops hookeri var. elephina (D.T.Cole) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops hookeri var. lutea (de Boer) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops hookeri var. marginata (Nel) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops hookeri var. subfenestrata (de Boer) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops hookeri var. susannae (D.T.Cole) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops marginata Nel
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. brunneoviolacea de Boer
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. dabneri (L.Bolus) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. elephina D.T.Cole
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. lutea de Boer
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. marginata (Nel) D.T.Cole
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. subfenestrata de Boer
  • Lithops turbiniformis var. susannae D.T.Cole
  • Mesembryanthemum hookeri A.Berger

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.