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Living stones (Lithops dorotheae)

Description

Lithops dorotheae is a species of Lithops found in South Africa. It was named after Dorothea Huyssteen, who found the plant in 1935. It grows on fine-grained sheared quartz and feldspar rock containing feldspathic quartzite.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Caryophyllales

            • Family: Aizoaceae

              • Genus: Lithops