Lithops: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Caryophyllales
- Family
- Aizoaceae
- Genus
- Lithops
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Lithops
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Lithops
Lithops is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae. Members of the genus are native to southern Africa. They avoid being eaten by herbivores with their camouflage as small stones, and are often known as pebble plants or living stones.
"Lithops" is both the genus name and the common name, and is singular as well as plural. The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words λίθος (líthos) 'stone' and ὄψ (óps) 'face', referring to the stone-like appearance of the plants.
...Lithops in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Beeskloue
- Afrikaans
- Vensterplante
- Chinese
- 生石花屬
- English
- Stonefigs
- English
- Living Stones
- English
- Stoneplants
- Finnish
- Kivikukat
- Modern Greek
- Λίθωψ
- Thai
- สกุล ไลทอปส์
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Acrodon
- Aloinopsis
- Amphibolia
- Antegibbaeum
- Antimima
- Arenifera
- Argyroderma
- Astridia
- Bergeranthus
- Bijlia
- Braunsia
- Brianhuntleya
- Calamophyllum
- Carpobrotus
- Carruanthus
- Cephalophyllum
- Cerochlamys
- Chasmatophyllum
- Cheiridopsis
- Circandra
- Conophytum
- Corpuscularia
- Cylindrophyllum
- Deilanthe
- Delosperma
- Dicrocaulon
- Didymaotus
- Dinteranthus
- Diplosoma
- Disphyma
- Dracophilus
- Drosanthemopsis
- Drosanthemum
- Eberlanzia
- Ebracteola
- Enarganthe
- Erepsia
- Esterhuysenia
- Faucaria
- Fenestraria
- Frithia
- Gibbaeum
- Glottiphyllum
- Hallianthus
- Hammeria
- Hartmanthus
- Hereroa
- Ihlenfeldtia
- Jacobsenia
- Jensenobotrya
- Jordaaniella
- Juttadinteria
- Khadia
- Lampranthus
- Lapidaria
- Leipoldtia
- Lithops
- Machairophyllum
- Malephora
- Malotigena
- Marlothistella
- Mestoklema
- Meyerophytum
- Mitrophyllum
- Monilaria
- Mossia
- Muiria
- Namaquanthus
- Namibia
- Nananthus
- Nelia
- Neohenricia
- Octopoma
- Odontophorus
- Oophytum
- Orthopterum
- Oscularia
- Ottosonderia
- Peersia
- Phiambolia
- Pleiospilos
- Prepodesma
- Psammophora
- Rabiea
- Rhinephyllum
- Rhombophyllum
- Roosia
- Ruschia
- Ruschianthus
- Ruschiella
- Schlechteranthus
- Schwantesia
- Scopelogena
- Smicrostigma
- Stayneria
- Stoeberia
- Stomatium
- Tanquana
- Titanopsis
- Trichodiadema
- Vanheerdea
- Vanzijlia
- Vlokia
- Wooleya
- Zeuktophyllum
- ×carpophyma
Child Taxa
- Lithops amicorum
- Lithops aucampiae
- Lithops bromfieldii
- Lithops coleorum
- Lithops comptonii
- Lithops dinteri
- Lithops divergens
- Lithops dorotheae
- Lithops francisci
- Lithops fulviceps
- Lithops geyeri
- Lithops gracilidelineata
- Lithops hallii
- Lithops helmutii
- Lithops herrei
- Lithops hookeri
- Lithops julii
- Lithops karasmontana
- Lithops lesliei
- Lithops localis
- Lithops marmorata
- Lithops meyeri
- Lithops naureeniae
- Lithops olivacea
- Lithops optica
- Lithops otzeniana
- Lithops pseudotruncatella
- Lithops ruschiorum
- Lithops salicola
- Lithops schwantesii
- Lithops vallis-mariae
- Lithops verruculosa
- Lithops villetii
- Lithops viridis
- Lithops werneri






























































































































































