Acrodon is a genus of ice plants from South Africa. It comprises 8 species, mostly endangered and all restricted to the southern Cape regions of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape Provinces, South Africa.[2]

Acrodon
Acrodon bellidiflorus, illustration from Plantarum historia succulentarum, 1802.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Aizoaceae
Subfamily:	Ruschioideae
Tribe:	Ruschieae
Genus:	Acrodon N.E.Br.[1]

Description

Species of Acrodon form dense, low mats or tufts of growth, and their leaves are triangular in cross-section. Another distinctive feature is that the leaves and flowers have a few tiny teeth along the ends of their margins and keels.

The white or pink flowers often have striped petals. The fruits are solid and persistent, with five deep locules.[3]

Species

• Acrodon bellidiflorus (L.) N.E.Br. A common Renosterveld species that extends from Hermanus to Oudtshoorn.[4]
• Acrodon deminutus Klak. A rarer species restricted to quartz-fields in the Eastern Rûens Shale Renosterveld and Potberg Ferricrete Fynbos vegetation types.[5]
• Acrodon duplessiae (Bolus) Glen
• Acrodon leptophyllus (Bolus) Glen
• Acrodon parvifolius R.du Plessis. An endangered species restricted to quartz and silcrete patches near to the coast, in the Botrivier area.[6]
• Acrodon purpureostylus (L.Bolus) Burgoyne. An endangered species restricted to gravelly, loamy shales in the greater Breede river valley, from Robertson down to as far as the Potberg.[7]
• Acrodon quarcicola H.E.K.Hartmann. An endangered species from exposed quartzitic slopes in the Agulhas region.[8]
• Acrodon subulatus (Mill.) N.E.Br. An endangered species restricted to shale Renostervelds in the far western Overberg.[9]

Relatives

It is frequently confused with related genera that grow in the same region, such as Brianhuntleya or Cerochlamys.

References

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