Lithops dorotheae

Lithops dorotheae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Aizoaceae
Genus: Lithops
Species: L. dorotheae
Binomial name
Lithops dorotheae
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Lithops dorotheae is a species of Lithops found in South Africa. It was named after Dorothea Huyssteen, who found the plant in 1935. It grows on fine-grained sheared quartz and feldspar rock containing feldspathic quartzite.[1]

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