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lithops|ˈlɪθɒps|
[mod.L. (N.E. Brown 1922, in Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2), f. Gr. λίθος stone + ὄψ face.]
A small succulent plant of the genus so called, belonging to the family Aizoaceæ, native to Namaqualand, South Africa, and resembling small stones.
[1922Gardeners' Chron. 28 Jan. 44/2 Lithops, N. E. Brown. Very dwarf succulent plants, in nature growing buried in the ground with their tops scarcely, or not at all, rising above the level of the surface. Ibid., Dr. Marloth is quite wrong in his identification of the plant, which I have no doubt whatever is a species of Lithops.] 1938H. A. Day Flowers of Desert iv. 148 It is most difficult to tell which are plants and which are pebbles when the two are mixed, as they are in the habitat of the Lithops, for the plants grow in the stony deserts of South Africa. 1966E. Palmer Plains of Camdeboo xvi. 269 We have never found a Lithops on Cranemere, the nearest species that we know of being Burchell's Lithops to the north and another species, Lithops terricolor, to the west. |