British Cactus and Succulent Society June 2008 Journal

JUNE 2008 CONTENTS:

Big Bend National Park, Texas by Mike Shawyer
A new classification for the Mesembryanthemoideae (Aizoaceae) by Cornelia Klak
Lithops scrapbook: part 3 (hybrids) by Keith Green
The flowering of Aeonium nobile by Bert Jonkers
The Haworthia Society of Japan by Harry Mays
Pleuralluma Plowes, a new name for a unique Somali stapeliad by Darrel C H Plowes
The smallest of the Bayonet Plants by Fritz Hochstätter
CactusTalk
Literature review
Aloe aurelienii, a new species of Aloe (Asphodelaceae) from eastern Madagascar by Jean-Bernard Castillon

Front cover: Mesembryanthemum emarcidum Linnaeus's pupil Thunberg first described this species in 1791. The form shown here is the later synonym M.anatomicum, described by Haworth a few years later in 1803. In 1925. N E Brown put M.tortuosum in a genus of its own that he called Sceletium, named for the way that the remains of the vascular strands of the leaves persist and form a skeletal sheath around the new leaves after drying. Since Brown, some half a dozen species have been recognised as belonging to Sceletium, under which name they will be found in the Illustrated Handbook of Succulents (2002).

In this journal, the article by Cornelia Klak refers to a study that has caused the reuniting of Sceletium and several other genera back under the oldest name of Mesembryanthemum, the only member of its subfamily, united by, apart from their DNA, the presence of prominent 'bladder' cells that can just be made out if you look closely over the surface of the leaves in this photo.

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