Dinteranthus

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Aizoaceae
Subfamilia: Ruschioideae
Tribus: Ruschieae
Genus: Dinteranthus
Species: D. inexpectatus – D. microspermus – D. pole-evansii – D. vallis-mariae – D. vanzylii – D. wilmotianus
Source(s) of checklist:

Hassler, M. 2018. Dinteranthus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 06. Reference page.

Name

Dinteranthus Schwantes, 1926.

Type species: Dinteranthus microspermus (Dinter & Derenb.) Schwantes. LT designated by Schwantes, Z. Sukkulentenk. 3: 105 (1927) .

References

Schwantes, Martin Heinrich Gustav, 1926: Zeitschrift für Sukkulentenkunde. Berlin, ii. 184.

Links

Hassler, M. 2018. Dinteranthus. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2018. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 06. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2018. Dinteranthus. Published online. Accessed: Jul. 06 2018.
The Plant List 2013. Dinteranthus in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 06.
Tropicos.org 2018. Dinteranthus. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published on the internet. Accessed: 2018 Jul. 06.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility. 2019. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset. Taxon: Dinteranthus. .

Vernacular names
русский: Динтерантус

Dinteranthus is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. It occurs in the arid northwestern parts of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa and the south-eastern parts of Namibia.[1]

Description and taxonomy

The plants are mesembs, and resemble those genera within the family Aizoaceae to which they are most closely related; namely Lithops, Lapidaria and Schwantesia, although they require even less water and have a distinctive keel along the lower leaf surface.

The genus name of Dinteranthus is in honour of Kurt Dinter (1868–1945), a German botanist and explorer in South West Africa and the greek word 'anthos' meaning flower.[2]
Species list

It contains the following accepted species:

Dinteranthus inexpectatus
Dinteranthus pole-evansii
Dinteranthus puberulus
Dinteranthus vanzylii
Dinteranthus willmotianus

Kew also lists Dinteranthus microspermus (Dinter & Derenberg) Schwantes and Dinteranthus vallis-mariae (Dinter & Schwantes) B.Fearn.[1]
Large stand of Dinteranthus microspermus puberulus
References

"Dinteranthus Schwantes | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
Quattrocchi, Umberto (2000). CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names, Volume II, D–L. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-8493-2676-9.