Lithops werneri is one of the smallest Lithops species.The plants usually have distinct branched markings. The plants are known from only one locality south of the Erongo Mountains and to the north of Usakos, Namibia. It occurs amongst weathered granite gravel.

Lithops werneri has yellow flowers.


Lithops werneri. A flowering specimen in cultivation.


Some dust particles visible after a sand storm.

  

Lithops naureeniae occurs in a small area to the south east of Springbok.

The plants are rather variable. Lithops naureeniae usually has well defined islands but is distinguished from others mainly by its divergent leaf pairs.

The flowers are yellow.


Lithops naureeniae in habitat in the Springbok district


A form with ill defined islands.

      

Lithops karasmontana ssp. karasmontana var. lericheana is found west and east of the Great Karasberg mountain range.

The plants differ from the typical variety in colour and in having broad translucent channels. The plants were discovered by Professor Kurt Dinter in 1924.

The flowers are white .

Lithops karasmontana ssp. karasmontana var. lericheana in cultivation.

      

Lithops karasmontana subsp. bella occurs in Namibia in a narrow boomerang-shaped area from Witputs in the south to Helmeringhausen in the north. The type locality is somewhere in the middle near Aus.

Lithops karasmontana subsp. bella seems to prefer to grow on elevations (koppies) in sandy pebbly soil.

The plants have very attractive translucent windows which is an obvious distinction from the subsp. karasmontana. The flowers are white.

"bella" means attractive

Lithops karasmontana subsp. bella in cultivation.

      

Lithops optica cv. rubra should perhaps be more correctly named Lithops optica fa. rubra as it is a natural occuring rare variant from "normal" populations of Lithops optica. Lithops optica fa. rubra is occasionally found in colonies to the west, south-west and south of Luderitz in the Namib Desert.

Lithops optica cv. rubra is an exceptionally attractive form and much in demand by collectors.

Lithops optica fa. rubra in cultivation about to flower.

      

Lithops bromfieldii var. mennellii occurs in a small area South of Upington. Upington lies in the Gordonia district, a very hot and desert like area, that harbours many interesting desert and succulent plants.

Lithops bromfieldii variety mennellii near Raaswater.


Lithops bromfieldii var. mennellii.

      

Lithops aucampiae var. aucampiae occurs over a fairly large triangular area. The distribution being approximately between Kuruman, Vryburg and Niekerkshoop.

Lithops aucampiae var. aucampiae in habitat near Griekwastad.

The plants are named after Miss Juanita Aucamp who collected a specimen in 1929.

      

Lithops marmorata variety elisae is known from a small area north of Steinkopf in the Northern Cape Richtersveld.

Lithops marmorata variety elisae in habitat.


General view of the area north of Steinkopf.

Synonyms for Lithops include Bokspoortjie, Beeskloutjie. (tranlated: goat tracks or cattle tracks)

      

Lithops bromfieldii var. glaudinae occurs in a small area south-west of Postmasburg and west of Griekwastad in the desert-like region of the Northern Cape. The plants are distinguished from the type species by their numerous dusky dots.

According to D.T. Cole the colours of the margins and islands of the plant body vary in different shades of opaque, light honey, pinkish brown or light orange brown.

Lithops bromfieldii var. glaudinae has yellow flowers.


Lithops bromfieldii var. glaudinae in cultivation.