See text Lampranthus is a genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to southern Africa.

The species of this genus typically have long, smooth, elongated, succulent leaves.

These can be triangular or cylindrical, and like all plants in its family, appear in opposite pairs on the shrubs' branches.

In contrast to Ruschia, each valve in a Lampranthus capsule has two wings, on either side of it, but no visible closing body.

L. aureus and L. spectabilis contain mesembrenol and low levels of related alkaloids such as mesembrenone[4] and have sometimes been mismarketed as kanna (Mesembryanthemum tortuosum) extract which contains higher levels of related alkaloids.