Origin and Habitat: 30 km South.
Habitat: They grow sunken in rocky environments and closely mimics the quartzite pebbles on which they grow and are lost to sight in this environment, this camouflage allows them to escape detection and is a very effective strategy for escaping predation. When they are found, it is usually due to their large and brightly coloured flowers. They are pollinated by bees, flies, wasps, gnats, bugs and other insects that are common in the area. of Windhoek, Namibia

• Lithops pseudotruncatella C070 30 km S of Windhoek, Namibia

• Lithops pseudotruncatella (A.Berger) N.E.Br.
• Mesembryanthemum pseudotruncatellum A.Berger
• Mesembryanthemum truncatellum Dinter non Haw.
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. alpina (Dinter) Boom
• Lithops alpina Dinter
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. alta Tischer
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C067 20 km ENE of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C068 (syn. alpina) 35 km SSE of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C070 30 km S of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C099 (syn. mundtii) 150 km NE of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C100 (syn. mundtii) 135 km NE of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C263 20 km W of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C264 (pallid Form) 60 km SSW of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C315 20 km ENE of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C381 (syn. alpina) TL: 30 km S of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella C413 100 km W of Windhoek, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. mundtii (Tischer) H.Jacobsen
• Lithops pseudotruncatella f. mundtii (Tischer) H.Jacobsen

• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. archerae (de Boer) D.T.Cole
• Lithops archerae de Boer
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. archerae (de Boer) D.T.Cole
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. archerae C104 120 km NW of Maltahöhe, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. archerae C306 TL: 120 km NW of Maltahöhe, Namibia

• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica (Nel) D.T.Cole
• Lithops dendritica Nel
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. dendritica (Nel) de Boer & Boom
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica C071 (syn. pulmonuncula) TL: 50 km WNW of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica C072 65 km WSW of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica C073 95 km WSW of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica C245 (syn. farinosa) 55 km SSW of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica C357 75 km SW of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. dendritica C384 6 km S of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella farinosa (Dinter) Boom
• Lithops farinosa Dinter in H.Jacobsen
• Lithops pseudotruncatella f. pulmuncola Dinter in H.Jacobsen
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. pulmuncola Dinter in Schwantes
• Lithops pseudotruncatella pulmuncola Dinter
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. pulmuncola Dinter in H.Jacobsen

• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. elisabethiae (Dinter) de Boer & Boom
• Lithops elisabethiae Dinter
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. elisabethiae C187 TL: 55 km ESE of Otjiwarongo, Namibia (Dinter) de Boer & Boom

• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. groendrayensis (H.Jacobsen) D.T.Cole
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. groendrayensis H.Jacobsen
• Lithops vallis-mariae var. groendrayensis (H.Jacobsen) de Boer
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. groendrayensis C239 45 km SSE of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. groendrayensis C244 TL: 50 km S of Rehoboth, Namibia
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. groendrayensis C246 (Witkop Form) 55 km S of Rehoboth, Namibia

• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. riehmerae D.T.Cole
• Lithops edithiae Schwantes non N.E.Br.
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. edithiae de Boer & Boom
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. riehmerae C097 (syn. edithiae) TL: 50 km SE of Windhoek, Namibia

• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. volkii (Schwantes ex de Boer & Boom) D.T.Cole
• Lithops pseudotruncatella var. volkii (Schwantes ex de Boer & Boom) D.T.Cole
• Lithops volkii Schwantes in H.Jacobsen
• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. volkii C069 TL: 45 km S of Windhoek, Namibia

• Lithops pseudotruncatella subs. archerae cv. Split Pea S.A.Hammer

Description: Lithops pseudotruncatella was one of first plant of this genus discovered and for a long time one of the first representative in European collections. Generally this Lithops is characterized by greyish colour with darker ramosely branched marbling on the upper surfaces, but it is also a very variable taxon in which a number of variety and forms has been described. The status of these is uncertain.
Habit: It is a very free- growing species, solitary or forming clumps of 2 or more heads each consisting of a pair of succulent leaves.
Body (paired leaves): The body is medium to very large, solitary or variously branched with more of 20 heads. Facial diameters 25-50 X 20-35 mm and up to 4 cm tall. Top of lobe flat or slightly convex; sides grey with a tinge of purple; top of lobe varying from pale grey to brownish-grey with a slight pinkish tinge sometimes; windows numerous, consisting of round green dots (miniature windows); top of lobe divided into many irregular areas by branching lines or dendritic markings, which are more or less confluent, forming grooves, coloured rust-brown, brownish-red with a touch of purple-blue along the edges of the grooves; top of lobes slightly rugulose (uneven); in areas a very large number of very minute white dots. The miniature windows either small, round to irregular shaped, or windows confluent from larger windows, which now and then occupy the whole upper surface and in that case the miniature windows on the margin.
Flowers: Yellow (occasionally white), medium to very large, up to 50 mm in diameter.
Fruits: Seed capsules mostly 6-chambered.
Seeds: Light brown to brown.

Bibliography: Major refences and further lectures
1) Heidrun E. K. Hartmann “Aizoaceae F – Z” Springer 2002
2) Achim Hecktheuer “Mesembs, mehr als nur Lithops” Books on Demand GmbH Norderstedt. 2008
3) Desmond T. Cole & Naureen A. Cole, Uwe Beyer, Yves Delange “Les Lithops” SUCCULENTES Spécial 2008 AIAPS (now Terra seca). 2008
4) Desmond T. Cole & Naureen A. Cole “LITHOPS Flowering Stones” Cactus & Co. Libri. 2005
5) Yasuhiko Shimada “The Genus Lithops” Dobun Shoin. 2001
6) Rudolf Heine “Lithops - Lebende Steine” Neumann Verlag. 1986
7) Bernd Schlösser “Lithops – Lebende Steine” Praktische Anleitung für die Zimmerkultur. BussinessPoint MEDIA. 2000
8) Steven A. Hammer “Lithops – Treasures of the veld” British Cactus and Succulent Society. 1999
9) Desmond T. Cole “Lithops – Flowering Stones” Acorn Books 1988
10) Rudolf Heine “Lithops – lebende Steine” Neumann Verlag. 1986
11) David L. Sprechman “Lithops” Associated University Presses, Inc. 1970
12) Gert Cornelius Nel “Lithops” Hortors Limited, South Africa 1946
13) Edgar Lamb "The illustrated reference on cacti and other succulents" Blandford Press. 1978
14) Christopher Brickell, Royal Horticultural Society "RHS A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants: K-Z., Volume 2" Kindersley, 2008
15) G. C . Nel “Lithops: Plantae succulantae, rarissimae, in terra obscuratae, e famailia Aizoaceae, ex Africa australi” Hortors Limited, Cape Town, South Africa 1946
16) Heidrun E. K. Hartmann "Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae F-Z" Springer, 2002
17) Steven A. Hammer "Lithops: Joyaux du veld" Editions Quae, 25/nov/2010

Cultivation and Propagation: In the winter season the plant doesn’t need watering, but they will still be growing, the new bodies will be increasing in size as the old outer leaves begin to shrivel. In fact the plant in this time extracts water and nutrient stored in the outer succulent leaves, allowing them to dehydrate relocating the water to the rest of the plant and to the new leaves that form during this period until the old leaves are reduced to nothing more than "thin papery shells".