Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Lithops fulviceps group

• Lithops fulviceps N.E.Br.: Cole numbers: C170, C220, C221, C266, C278, C284, C390, C391; (lydiae) C219
  It is a medium sized elliptical plant about 30 X 23 to 40 X 27 mm wide, It branches easily and forms clumps with up to 10 (or more) heads, but usually less. It is somewhat variable in colour, usually uniform rusty yellow-brown to orange-red-brown, but also grey-brown, grey with greenish or pinkish or purplish tinges, but otherwise very uniform. Dusky dots are dark grey-green to blue-green. Shoulders often as for the face but duller.
• Lithops fulviceps C170 40 km N of Karasburg, Namibia: reddish brown heads, red lines.
• Lithops fulviceps C219 (syn. lydiae) TL: 60 km N of Karasburg, Namibia: dusky pinkish grey.
• Lithops fulviceps C220 TL: 75 km N of Karasburg, Namibia: large dots, red lines, rust body.
• Lithops fulviceps C221 85 km N of Karasburg, Namibia: red brown with red dashes and dots.
• Lithops fulviceps C266 65 km N of Karasburg, Namibia: extra red large dots.
• Lithops fulviceps C278 70 km W of Upington, South Africa: big spots.
• Lithops fulviceps C284 15 km NE of Karasburg, Namibia: ochre bodies, many red dots and lines.
• Lithops fulviceps C363 Locality unknown (Namibia) cv. Aurea (Y.Shimada) D.T.Cole: The plant originates in cultivation either in USA and in Japan, it is yellowish-green to or creamy-blue green in colour with white flower, but is otherwise the same as var. fulviceps. The usky dots are raised, dark dull greyish or bluish green. Rubrications (if present) is very fine pale brownish-orange.
• Lithops fulviceps C390 30 km NW of Grünau, Namibia
• Lithops fulviceps C391 25 km NW of Grünau, Namibia
• Lithops fulviceps C415 (pale Form) Near Fish River Canyons, Namibia
• Lithops fulviceps var. lactinea D.T.Cole: (Syn: Lithops. geoffreyi, Lithops verruculosa) Cole number: C222. It is endemic to a very small area where it is found growing on a gentle limestone slope. This plant except for the face colour is the same as the type. Face is opaque, milky bluish or greenish or pinkish grey-white or grey with dusky dots mainly bluish green. Shoulders milky grey-white, or bluish grey-white. Rubrications yellowish or reddish orange, sometimes barely visible. It is a medium medium to large plant up to 40 X 30 mm wide. Usually few branched with up to 4 heads (or more in cultivation).
• Lithops fulviceps var. lactinea C222 TL: 100 km ESE of Keetmanshoop, Namibia: pinkish milky grey, red lines.
• Lithops fulviceps var. laevigata D.T.Cole: Cole number: C412 This variety is quite uniform and distinguishable for it more smooth surface, as if polished. It has small subcutaneous dots, not the large raised dusky dots which characterize the type variety. The plants are also distinctly smaller in all dimensions, with rarely visible rubrications. The face and shoulders colour is always rusty brown, sometime with few distinguishable islands. The channels (if present) are dark olive-green and obscurely transluscent.
• Lithops fulviceps var. laevigata C412 TL: 90 km NE of Pofadder, South Africa: very odd small convex form.