Ceraria

Ceraria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Core eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Portulacaceae
Genus:	Ceraria Pearson & Stephens
Species
See text.

Ceraria is a genus of succulent shrubs, native to South Africa and Namibia.

Description

They are very slow-growing, semi-deciduous or deciduous, and succulent perennials with a few branches and many small, ovoidal leaves along the stems. Branches are pale-barked smooth with papery cortex. These woody-stemed desert shrubs have many short and ovoid gray-green leaves. Flowers, born on peduncles of 13-17mm long, with some minute ovate bracts 4mm long. Calyx with 2 phyllous, 5 rose-colored, obovate, 2mm long petals. Five stamens with linear filaments.

Species

Ceraria carrissoana
Ceraria evora
Ceraria fruticulosa
Ceraria gariepina
Ceraria kaokoensis
Ceraria kuneneana
Ceraria longipedunculata
Ceraria namaquensis syn. Portulacaria armiana, Namaqualand ceraria (False portulacaria, Namaqua porkbush)
Ceraria pygmaea syn. Portulacaria pygmaea
Ceraria schaeferi

References

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