Two New Species of Aizoaceae (Ruschieae, Ruschoideae) from the Cape, South Africa.

Smicrostigma warmwaterbergense is described from the summit of Warmwaterberg on Little Karoo Western Cape. It resembles S. viride in its habit and leaves but differs that flowers open during day close at night reproductive parts are fully visible when open. The new species highlights links to Octopoma Zeuktophyllum, which also centered share with a smooth surface, solitary, (sub-) sessile many-locular fruits. Namaquanthus cephalophylloides patches quartz-gravel north Kleinzee Namaqualand Northern This shares N. vanheerdei thick, finger-shaped distinctly echinate seeds it by dwarf habit, gray downward-pointing fruit, drop off once mature.