Mitrophyllum

Mitrophyllum

Mitrophyllum mitratum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Aizoaceae
Genus:	Mitrophyllum (Marl.) Schwant.
Species
see text

Mitrophyllum is a genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the arid region around the Richtersveld, on the border of South Africa and Namibia.

Description

Mitrophyllum mitratum showing the papery sheath in which the new pairs of leaves are held before rains.

Mitrophyllum clivorum.

The species generally grow long stems, at the top of which two succulent leaves appear. Similar to the closely related genera of Monilaria and Meyerophytum, these leaf-pairs alternate consecutively between two different types of leaf-growth (heterophylly) and during the exceptionally hot summer they remain inactive in a dry sheath.

Cultivation

In cultivation, the plants are not difficult to grow. However they require deep well-drained sandy soil and sufficient sun exposure. They are also adapted to very dry summers and watering mainly over the winter.

They are slow growing, and are difficult to propagate by cuttings; consequently seed is the preferred means of propagation.^[1]

Species^[2]

Mitrophyllum abbreviatum
Mitrophyllum clivorum
Mitrophyllum dissitum
Mitrophyllum grande
Mitrophyllum mitratum
Mitrophyllum roseum

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