Mesembryanthemum tortuosum Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 1: 487. 1753.

"Habitat ad Cap. b. Spei." RCN: 3704.

Lectotype (Gerbaulet in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 118: 20. 1996): [icon] " Mesembryanthemum tortuosum, foliis Sempervivi congestis " in Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. 2: 233, t. 181, f. 222. 1732.

Current name: Sceletium tortuosum (L.) N.E. Br. ( Aizoaceae).