title: Dasispermum
text: # Dasispermum
  
  Dasispermum are a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae, native to coastal area of southern South Africa. Short-lived perennial or annuals, they are low-lying, often sprawling herbs with succulent or semi-succulent leaves, adapted to the dry, salty conditions of the littoral areas where they grow.
  
  ## Species
  
  Currently accepted species include:
  
  * Dasispermum capense (Lam.) Magee & B.-E.van Wyk
  * Dasispermum grandicarpum Magee & B.-E.van Wyk
  * Dasispermum hispidum (Thunb.) Magee & B.-E.van Wyk
  * Dasispermum humile (Meisn.) Magee & B.-E.van Wyk
  * Dasispermum perennans Magee & B.-E.van Wyk
  * Dasispermum suffruticosum (P.J.Bergius) B.L.Burtt
  * Dasispermum tenue (Sond.) Magee & B.-E.van Wyk
  