Disphyma

Disphyma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae that are native to New Zealand, Australia and southern Africa.

Plants in this genus are prostrate, annual or short-lived perennial shrubs with succulent leaves and daisy-like flowers arranged singly on the ends of shoots with petal-like staminodes, many stamens and usually five styles.

The leaves are arranged alternately and fused at the base, succulent and round to more or less triangular in cross-section.

The flowers are usually arranged singly, sometimes in pairs or three, on the ends of branches or on short side shoots, each flower on a pedicel up to 100 mm (3.9 in) long.

[1][2] The genus Disphyma was first formally described in 1925 by N. E. Brown in The Gardeners' Chronicle.