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|accepted_name=Malephora crocea
|accepted_authority=(Jacquin) Schwantes
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Deutsche Gärt.-Zeitung
|place=43: 7. 1928
|year=1928
}}
|common_names=Crocea iceplant
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mesembryanthemum croceum
|authority=Jacquin
|publication_title=Fragm. Bot. ,
|publication_place=17. 1800
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|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Crocanthus croceus
|authority=(Jacquin) L. Bolus
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|name=Hymenocyclus croceus
|authority=(Jacquin) Schwantes
}} {{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Mesembryanthemum instititum
|authority=Willdenow
}}
|hierarchy=Aizoaceae;Malephora;Malephora crocea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Aizoaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malephora]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malephora crocea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 4
|mention_page=page 90
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Subshrubs.</b> Stems light gray- brown, exterior fissured, barklike, to 2 cm diam., corky, becoming woody with age. <b>Leaves</b> crowded at end of short shoots, pale green, sometimes red tinged; blade triangular in cross section, 2.5–6(–12) × 0.6 cm, apex blunt, glaucous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, flowers solitary; pedicel 1–6 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx 0.8–1.5 cm; calyx lobes (4–)5(–6), 3 longer, with translucent margins, 2 shorter, apex acute; petals 40–65, purplish abaxially, orange adaxially, sometimes completely yellow, orange, or red, 4–12 mm; nectary present; stamens 2–5 mm; filaments connate basally, forming dense ring, white-hairy; ovary inferior. <b>Capsules</b> obcuneiform, 8(–12)-loculed; adaxial seed pockets with bifid placental tubercles. <b>Seeds</b> ca. 75, 3–15 per locule, 1 × 0.8 mm. <b>2n</b> = 36.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering mostly spring–summer.
|habitat=Margins of coastal wetlands and bluffs
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California);Africa.
|discussion=<p><i>Malephora crocea</i> is grown as an ornamental and often sold as a ground cover for landscaping. It is cultivated along freeways as far north and inland as Fresno, California.</p><!--
--><p>Two varieties of <i>Malephora crocea</i> have been recognized: <i></i></i>var.<i><i> crocea</i>, with the adaxial surfaces of the petals orange and the abaxial surfaces purplish; and var. purpureocrocea (Haworth) H. Jacobsen & Schwantes, with petals purplish on both surfaces, which is grown for ornamental purposes and is not naturalized in the flora.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=ferren1981a
|text=Ferren, W. R. Jr., J. E. Bleck, and N. J. Vivrette. 1981. Malephora crocea (Aizoaceae) naturalized in California. Madroño 28: 80–85.
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name=Malephora crocea
|author=
|authority=(Jacquin) Schwantes
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Crocanthus croceus;Hymenocyclus croceus;Mesembryanthemum instititum
|basionyms=Mesembryanthemum croceum
|family=Aizoaceae
|phenology=Flowering mostly spring–summer.
|habitat=Margins of coastal wetlands and bluffs
|elevation=0-100 m
|distribution=Calif.;Mexico (Baja California);Africa.
|introduced=true
|reference=ferren1981a
|publication title=Deutsche Gärt.-Zeitung
|publication year=1928
|special status=
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|genus=Malephora
|species=Malephora crocea
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