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A Personal Aizoaceae Rudolphi (Fig-marigold personal or even mesembryanthemum crystallinum personal) occurs as taxonomic category of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing some 126 genera & astir 1100 coinage. It is normally referred to as living stone or even carpeting weeds. An old taxonomical term for the class action was Ficoideae. Virtually all mintage therein personal are from either southern Africa, but two or three come from either Australia and the Central Pacific.

Virtually all fig-marigolds come herbaceous, rarely somewhat woody, by using stems growing either erect or even prostrate. Leaves are simple, opposite or even even surrogate, & around lush by using stallion (or seldom toothed) margins. Flowers are hone around virtually all metal money (however unisexual around occasionally), actinomorphous, & pop up singularly or even inside couple of-flowered cymes getting from either a leaf axils. Sepals are generally Cinque (Three-8) & close to cognate (consolidated) beneath. Admittedly petals are scatty. Yet, a few metal money keep close at hand many linear flower petal from either staminoides. A fruit is a capsule with one to many seeds per cell.

Two or three metal money (especially a Ice Plant, Carpobrotus edulis) have been widely introduced and become invasive. The metal money referred to as New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides) is grown as a garden plant in somewhat dry climates & utilized or else to spinach in upscale salads.

Jensenobotrya lossowiana Genera
Acrodon Acrosanthes Aethephyllum Aizoanthemum Aizoön Aloinopsis Amphibolia Antigibbaeum Antimema Apatesia Aptenia Arenifera Argyroderma Aspazoma Astridia Bergeranthus Berrisfordia Bijlia Braunsia Brownanthus Carpanthea Carpobrotus Carruanthus Caryotophora Cephalophyllum Cerochlamys Chasmatophyllum Cheiridopsis Circandra Cleretum Conicosia Conophytum Corpuscularia Cylindrophyllum Cypselea Dactylopsis Delosperma Dicrocaulon Didymaotus Dinteranthus Diplosoma Disphyma Dorotheanthus Dracophilus Drosanthemopsis Drosanthemum Eberlanzia Ebracteola Enarganthe Erepsia Esterhuysenia Faucaria Fenestraria Frithia Galenia Gibbaeum Glottiphyllum Gunniopsis Hallianthus Hereroa Herreanthus Hymenogyne Imitaria Jacobsenia Jensenobotrya Jordaaniella Juttadinteria Khadia Lampranthus Lapidaria Leipoldtia Lithops Machairophyllum Malephora Mesembryanthemum Mestoklema Meyerophytum Mitrophyllum Monilaria Mossia Muiria Namaquanthus Namibia Nananthus Nelia Neohenricia Octopoma Odontophorus Oophytum Ophthalmophyllum Orthopterum Oscularia Ottosonderia Phyllobolus Pleiospilos Plinthus Polymita Psammophora Pseudobrownanthus Psilocaulon Rabiea Rhinephyllum Rhombophyllum Ruschia Ruschianthemum Ruschianthus Saphesia Schlechteranthus Schwantesia Scopelogena Sesuvium Skiatophytum Smicrostigma Stayneria Stoeberia Stomatium Synaptophyllum Tanquana Titanopsis Trianthema Trichodiadema Vanheerdea Vanzijlia Wooleya Zaleya Zeuktophyllum

Families of Flowering Plants: Aizoaceae
Habit and leaf form, anatomy, morphology, physiology, biochemistry, and geography.

Achim Hecktheuer's Mesemb Site
Extensive classification information and photo archive of South African succulents in the aizoaceae family, with emphasis on conophytum and lithops species.






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