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Carpobrotus acinaciformis (Glaucous Hottenot Fig) |
Carpobrotus acinaciformis (AIZOOACEAE.)
Images for this profile are taken from the Maltese Islands at or after year 2000. |
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| Nomenclature and Basic Information |
Species name : |
Carpobrotus acinaciformis(L.) L. Bolus
Published in Fl. Pl. South Africa 7: t. 247 (1927) | Synonyms :
(basionym or principal syn.) |
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Plant Family : | Aizooaceae
Rudolphi (The Fig-Marigold Family)
16 species from the Aizooaceae family are recorded from the Maltese Islands. | English name(s) : | Glaucous Hottenot Fig, Point Sourfig Iceplant | Maltese name(s) : | Xuxet San Ġwann rari, Is-Swaba tal-Madonna rari | Status for Malta : | Species that was introduced in Malta after year 1492, but usually more recently and spreads rapidly to form large invasive populations to the detriment of native flora or ecosystems | Frequency : | Very Common Common Frequent Scarce
Rare Very rare Extinct
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Raunkiaer lifeform [info]: CHAMEOPHYTE (dwarf or small shrubs)
Germination [info]: Dicotyledon | Legal Protection [link]: | Not Protected by Law (LN200/2011 or LN311/2006) | Red List (1989) : | Not listed in the Red Data Book of the Maltese Islands | Flowering Time : | Mar-Oct | Colour of Flowers: | Violet | Remarks : | This species has been repeatedly confused with the closely related Carpobrotus edulis where the main differences are in the sepals, ovary and receptacle of the flower, but usually, C. edulis has yellow flowers and C. acinaciformis has purple-magenta flowers. This species is closely related to Carpobrotus edulis which apparently, in local literature there is confusion betwen the two. Conclusive identification relies on dissecting the flower and examine the number of locules and the longitudinal shape of receptacle, however if the longest sepals are up to 30mm long, flowers are purple-magenta, leaves scimitar shaped with isosceles triangular cross section, then the specimen is most likely C. acinaciformis . About 95% of the specimens examined, resulted to be C. acinaciformis in Malta, hence the use of C. edulis as the purple-flowering invasive species has to be ammended to C. acinaciformis . |
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| Species Description and Distribution |
Habitat in Europe: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Preferred habitat in Malta: |
Invasive horticultural escape found in disturbed areas especially close to the touristic areas, coasts and wasteground. |
Botanical Description: |
Data will be available in the next update of this website. |
Chromosome number: |
2n=18 |
Distributional map in Europe
and the Mediterranean region (2018):
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Occurrences in Europe and the Mediterranean region.
(Euro+Med Checklist, 2017) -
Country codes |
[nAg nAz(J) nBl Bl(I M N) nBr nCa Ca(C) nCo aCr aCy nGa(F) nGr nHs Hs(S) nIt nLi nLu nMa nSa -Si(M) nSi(S) Tu(A E)] |
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