Citation: Schwantes, Gartenflora 77:68 (1928).

Synonymy: Mesembryanthemum rossii Haw., Rev. Pl. Succ. 120 (1821); C. aequilaterus sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 338 (1948), partly.

Common name: Karkalla, Ross's noon-flower, angular pigface.

Description:
Stems to 1 m or more long, 3-11 mm thick; leaves glaucous, often slightly thicker than wide, mostly 3.5-10 cm long, 6-11 mm wide.

Flowers 3.5-5.5 cm diam.; peduncles c. 5-28 mm long; ovary turbinate or oblong-turbinate; perianth lobes 4 or 5, to 2.5 cm long; petaloid staminodes usually 60-160, light-purple, white at base, streaked only close to the mid-line when dry; stamens 100-250; styles 6-10.

Fruit purplish to red, turbinate in front view, globose-ellipsoid in side view, 1.6-2.2 cm long; seeds 1.1-1.4 mm long.

	Carpobrotus rossii
Image source: pl. 8above in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: W.R. Elliot & D.L. Jones (1982) Encyclopaedia of Australian plants 2:466.

Distribution:  Predominantly coastal. S.Aust.: NU, FR, EP, NL, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust.; Vic.; Tas. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Aug. — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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