Corpuscularia

Low shrublets, sometimes with trailing branches with internodes usually hidden by leaves. Leaves sharply triangular in cross section, sides +/- parallel, with tiny pointed tips, smooth and firm in texture, very pale green to bluish green, unspotted. Flowers solitary, short-stalked, rather large and white to pale pinkish or cream; bracts leaf-like. Sepals 6, firm. Petals long and narrow, rather stiff, white. Stamens erect, sparsely hairy; staminodes few. Nectary of 6 separate, but nearly touching glands. Ovary: placentas parietal; stigmas 6. Fruit a 6-locular capsule, of Delosperma type; robust, whitish, with dark persistent petal remains, not closing completely after first opening; expanding keels parallel; valve wings broad; covering membranes 0; closing bodies 0. Seeds pear-shaped and nearly smooth. x = 9. F lowering in spring and summer. D istinguishing characters: shrublets with pale grey-green, triquetrous, dotless leaves; flowers white with stiff petals and 6 sepals; old petals persist on the developing fruit.