Fenestraria

Taxobox
name = "Fenestraria"

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image_width = 204px
image_caption = "Fenestraria rhopalophylla"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Caryophyllales
familia = Aizoaceae
genus = "Fenestraria"
binomial = "Fenestraria rhopalophylla"
binomial_authority =
synonyms ="Fenestraria aurantiaca"

"Fenestraria" is a monotypic genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae. The species is also called babies toes or window plant.On each leaf there is transparent window-like area at the top, it is for these window-like structures that the genus is named (latin: "fenestra"). In the wild, the plant grows mostly buried by sand. The transparent tips are often above the sand and allow light into the leaves for photosynthesis. "F. rhopalophylla" is native to Namibia and Namaqualand in southern Africa. The plants are generally found growing in sandy or calciferous soils under low < 100 mm rainfall.

"F. rhopalophylla" appears very similar to "Frithia pulchra", though the leaves are a slightly different shape and "F. rhopalophylla" has yellow flowers, compared to the pink flowers of "F. pulchra".

Subspecies

* "F. rhopalophylla" subsp. "rhopalophylla"
* "F. rhopalophylla" subsp. "aurantiaca" (=*"F. aurantiaca")