| FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS 1. Where do Adromischus
grow?
Adromischus plants
are frequently seen growing among other leaf
succulents throughout southern Africa, in the
drier areas of all of the Provinces of South
Africa and much of Namibia. They are associated
most with the Succulent Karoo biome, but are also present in
rocky places in Fynbos, Nama Karoo and (Spekboom)
Thicket biomes. The distribution maps here for
individual species should give a good idea of
their where-abouts.
If it is true that
the geographic origin of a genus is near the
centre of diversity, then an origin for
Adromischus in the southern Cape is suggested,
but each section has a distinctive distribution.
It is remarkable
that within each of the five sections, species
usually do not overlap. However, sectional
distributions do overlap and thus more than one
species of Adromischus can be found at a given
place. Perhaps the only exception to this rule is
A. filicaulis from Section 1, which
occasionally grows near other Section 1 species.
Examples of combinations where three or more
species occur in the same vicinity include:
| Sections 1, 1 &
5 |
A. alstonii, A.
filicaulis, A. marianiae |
Helskloof |
| Sections 1, 1, 4 &
5 |
Top: A. hemisphaericus; Bottom: A. liebenbergii, A.
triflorus, A. marianiae |
Swartruggens |
| Sections 1, 1, 4
& 5 |
A. filicaulis var. marlothii,
A. liebenbergii, A. triflorus, A.
leucophyllus |
S. Laingsburg |
| Sections 1, 3, 4
& 5 | A. fili. v. marlothii,
A. caryophyllaceus, A. maculatus, A.
leucophyllus | Montagu (Bryan Makin) |
| Sections 1, 3, 4
& 5 |
A. caryophyllaceus, A.
cristatus, A. inamoenus, A. subdistichus |
Nuwekloof, Willowmore |
| Sections 3, 4, 5 & 5 |
A. fallax, A. sphenophyllus, A.cooperi, A. cristatus |
Valley of Desolation, G-R |
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