Schwantes Mesembryanthemum echinatum Lam.

Delosperma echinatum is a succulent plant, native to South Africa.

The new genus Delosperma was erected by English botanist N. E. Brown in 1925, with this species later acknowledged as the type species.

[2] Scottish plant-hunter Francis Masson collected this species for Kew Gardens in 1774.

French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck described it as Mesembryanthemum echinatum in 1786,[3] from material in France that most likely had come from England.