Description
Lithops schwantesii var. urikosensis (syn: L. christinae) is a distinct variety of the variable Lithops schwantesii. It distinguishes for the upper surface very rugose, slightly grey-white with dark blood-red dots and lines in grooves. Growths solitary or 2 or more in a clump. It has the same variable characteristics of the species.
Derivation of specific name: “urikosensis” from the farm Urikos where it was fist collested.
Body (paired leaves): Small, tapering, truncate, rounded; deep cleft dividing tops into unequal parts; window opaque; top of lobe rugose, the top surface of the wrinkles coloured pale yellowish-grey, in the depressions dark-brown dots, a few sometimes inter-connected forming about 18–23 short lines of the same colour; dots and lines with a distinct dark mauve-grey border; in the older stage top of wrinkles assumes a more pronounced yellowish tint; the dots disappear and only darker coloured dendritic lines prominent.
Flowers: Yellow.