Stomatium mustellinum Seeds - Indigenous Succulent Mesemb

Stomatium mustellinum is a perennial, clump-forming succulent plant. It has 4–6 pairs of small leaves on short branchlets. The two leaves of a pair are often unequal, narrowly triangular and keeled or boat-like towards the apex (Herre 1971: 296). Where the lower surfaces approach the upper surface they sometimes form a chin-like point. The leaf margins and keel have broad “teeth” but this characteristic is variable and less prominent in some plants. The grey-green succulent leaves are rubbery, pliable and reptilian to the touch. The leaves are about 30–40 mm long and 10–20 mm broad.

The flowers are solitary on short peduncles without bracts. They are about 30 mm in diameter with many very fine, yellow, narrow and linear, radiating petals surrounding a cluster of stamens in the centre. The calyxis cup-shaped or tubular. The fruit is a capsule with 5 or 6 seed chambers or locules with winged, expanding keels. Seeds are fine, light brown and about 1 mm in size. Stomatium mustellinum is summer-flowering.