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Aizoaceae

Index Aizoaceae

The Aizoaceae Martynov, nom. [1]

96 relations: Africa, Agave, Aizoanthemum, Aizoon, Aloinopsis, Amphibolia, Antimima, APG II system, APG system, Aptenia, Argyroderma, Aridaria, Astridia, Australia, Braunsia, Brownanthus, C4 carbon fixation, Cactus, Capsule (fruit), Carbon fixation, Carpobrotus, Carpobrotus edulis, Carruanthus, Caryophyllales, Cephalophyllum, Cerochlamys, Chasmatophyllum, Cheiridopsis, Conicosia, Conophytum, Crassulacean acid metabolism, Dehiscence (botany), Delosperma, Dicotyledon, Dinteranthus, Disphyma, Drosanthemum, Eudicots, Family (biology), Faucaria, Fenestraria, Flower, Flowering plant, Frithia, Galenia, Genus, Gibbaeum, Glottiphyllum, Gunniopsis, Heidrun Hartmann, ..., Herbaceous plant, Introduced species, Ivan Martinov, Jensenobotrya, Jordaaniella, Juttadinteria, Khadia, Lampranthus, Lapidaria margaretae, Leaf, List of leaf vegetables, Lithops, Machairophyllum, Malephora, Mesembryanthemum, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum, Meyerophytum, Mitrophyllum, Muiria, Oophytum, Orthopterum, Oscularia, Pacific Ocean, Petal, Plant stem, Pleiospilos, Psammophora, Ruschia, Ruschianthus, Salad, Sceletium tortuosum, Schwantesia, Sepal, Sesuvium, Species, Spinach, Succulent Karoo, Succulent plant, Sympodial, Tetragonia, Tetragonia tetragonioides, Titanopsis, Trianthema, Trichodiadema, Vlokia, Zeuktophyllum. Expand index (46 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Agave

Agave is a genus of monocots native to the hot and arid regions of Mexico and the Southwestern United States.

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Aizoanthemum

Aizoanthemum is a small genus of plant in the family Aizoaceae, native to Namibia and Angola.

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Aizoon

Aizoon is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family, Aizoaceae.

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Aloinopsis

Aloinopsis is a genus of ice plants from South Africa.

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Amphibolia

Amphibolia is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Antimima

Antimima is a succulent plant genus in the Aizoaceae family, indigenous to South Africa and Namibia.

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APG II system

The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II system) of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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APG system

The APG system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system) of plant classification is the first version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy.

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Aptenia

Aptenia is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae.

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Argyroderma

Argyroderma is a genus consisting of over 50 species of succulents in the iceplant family from South Africa.

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Aridaria

Aridaria is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae.

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Astridia

Astridia is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Braunsia

Braunsia is a genus of succulent plant in the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the Western Cape province in South Africa.

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Brownanthus

Brownanthus is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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C4 carbon fixation

C4 carbon fixation or the Hatch-Slack pathway is a photosynthetic process in some plants.

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Cactus

A cactus (plural: cacti, cactuses, or cactus) is a member of the plant family Cactaceae,Although the spellings of botanical families have been largely standardized, there is little agreement among botanists as to how these names are to be pronounced.

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Capsule (fruit)

In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry, though rarely fleshy dehiscent fruit produced by many species of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Carbon fixation

Carbon fixation or сarbon assimilation is the conversion process of inorganic carbon (carbon dioxide) to organic compounds by living organisms.

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Carpobrotus

Carpobrotus, commonly known as pigface, ice plant, sour fig, and Hottentot fig, is a genus of ground-creeping plants with succulent leaves and large daisy-like flowers.

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Carpobrotus edulis

Carpobrotus edulis is a ground-creeping plant with succulent leaves in the genus Carpobrotus, native to South Africa.

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Carruanthus

Carruanthus is a genus of flowering plants from the ice plant family Aizoaceae.

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Caryophyllales

Caryophyllales is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, beets, and many carnivorous plants.

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Cephalophyllum

Cephalophyllum is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Cerochlamys

Cerochlamys is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae.

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Chasmatophyllum

Chasmatophyllum is a genus of succulent plants native to the Karoo mountains of South Africa.

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Cheiridopsis

Cheiridopsis is a genus that consists of 100 flowering succulent perennial plants, native to semi-arid regions in the far west of Namibia and South Africa.

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Conicosia

Conicosia is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to southern Africa.

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Conophytum

Conophytum is a genus of South African and Namibian succulent plants that belong to the Aizoaceae family.

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Crassulacean acid metabolism

Crassulacean acid metabolism, also known as CAM photosynthesis, is a carbon fixation pathway that evolved in some plants as an adaptation to arid conditions.

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Dehiscence (botany)

Dehiscence is the splitting along a built-in line of weakness in a plant structure in order to release its contents, and is common among fruits, anthers and sporangia.

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Delosperma

Delosperma ('delos'.

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Dicotyledon

The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or more rarely dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants or angiosperms were formerly divided.

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Dinteranthus

Dinteranthus is a genus in the Aizoaceae family of plants.

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Disphyma

Disphyma is a monotypic genus of succulent shrubs.

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Drosanthemum

Drosanthemum ("dewflowers") is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to the winter-rainfall regions of southern Africa.

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Eudicots

The eudicots, Eudicotidae or eudicotyledons are a clade of flowering plants that had been called tricolpates or non-magnoliid dicots by previous authors.

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Family (biology)

In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.

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Faucaria

Faucaria is a genus of around 33 species of succulent subtropical flowering plants of the family Aizoaceae.

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Fenestraria

Fenestraria (known as babies' toes or window plant) is a (possibly monotypic) genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to the Namaqualand in Namibia.

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Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants (plants of the division Magnoliophyta, also called angiosperms).

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Flowering plant

The flowering plants, also known as angiosperms, Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approximately 13,164 known genera and c. 295,383 known species.

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Frithia

Frithia is a genus of succulent plant in family Aizoaceae, indigenous to several small rocky areas in the vicinity of Gauteng Province, South Africa.

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Galenia

Galenia is a genus of low growing perennial herbs in the family Aizoaceae.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Gibbaeum

Gibbaeum is a genus of about 21 species of small succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the Little Karoo region of South Africa.

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Glottiphyllum

Glottiphyllum is a genus of about 57 species of succulent subtropical plants of the family Aizoaceae.

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Gunniopsis

Gunniopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family, Aizoaceae.

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Heidrun Hartmann

Heidrun Hartmann, née Heidrun Elsbeth Klara Osterwald (born 5 August 1942 in Kolberg, died 11 July 2016) was a German botanist.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.

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Introduced species

An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.

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Ivan Martinov

Ivan Ivanovich Martinov (the last name also spelled Martynov, Иван Иванович Мартынов) (1771–1833 Saint Peterburg) was Russian botanist and philologist.

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Jensenobotrya

Jensenobotrya lossowiana is the only species of genus Jensenobotrya, in the Aizoaceae family.

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Jordaaniella

Jordaaniella is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Juttadinteria

Juttadinteria is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Khadia

Khadia is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Lampranthus

Lampranthus is a genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to southern Africa.

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Lapidaria margaretae

Lapidaria is a monotypic genus of dwarf succulent plants in the Aizoaceae family.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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List of leaf vegetables

This is a list of vegetables which are grown or harvested primarily for the consumption of their leafy parts, either raw or cooked.

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Lithops

Lithops is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae.

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Machairophyllum

Machairophyllum is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae.

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Malephora

Malephora is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family.

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Mesembryanthemum

Mesembryanthemum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae; like many members of this family, it is characterized by long-lasting flower heads.

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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

Mesembryanthemum crystallinum is a prostrate succulent plant native to Africa, Sinai and southern Europe, and naturalized in North America, South America and Australia.

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Meyerophytum

Meyerophytum is a genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the arid region of the Namaqualand and Richtersveld, in the far north-west of South Africa.

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Mitrophyllum

Mitrophyllum is a genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the arid region around the Richtersveld, on the border of South Africa and Namibia.

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Muiria

Muiria hortenseae ("Mouse-head") is a rare dwarf species of succulent plant of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to a very small area in the Little Karoo, Western Cape, South Africa.

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Oophytum

Oophytum is a genus of succulent plants native to South Africa.

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Orthopterum

Orthopterum is a genus of succulent plant in the family Aizoaceae, subfamily Mesembryanthemoideae.

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Oscularia

Oscularia is a genus of succulent flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to semi-arid and rocky habitats in the Western Cape of South Africa.

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Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's oceanic divisions.

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Petal

Petals are modified leaves that surround the reproductive parts of flowers.

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Plant stem

A stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant, the other being the root.

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Pleiospilos

Pleiospilos is a genus of succulent flowering plants of the Aizoaceae family, native to South Africa.

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Psammophora

Psammophora is a genus of plant in family Aizoaceae.

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Ruschia

Ruschia is a genus of succulent plant, in family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the dryer parts of southern Africa.

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Ruschianthus

Ruschianthus falcatus is a species of plant in the Aizoaceae family.

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Salad

A salad is a dish consisting of a mixture of small pieces of food, usually vegetables.

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Sceletium tortuosum

Sceletium tortuosum is a succulent plant commonly found in South Africa, which is also known as Kanna, Channa, Kougoed (Kauwgoed/ 'kougoed', prepared from 'fermenting' S. tortuosum)—which literally means, 'chew(able) things' or 'something to chew'.

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Schwantesia

Schwantesia is a genus of plant in the family Aizoaceae.

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Sepal

A sepal is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants).

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Sesuvium

Sesuvium is a genus of flowering plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Spinach

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is an edible flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae native to central and western Asia.

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Succulent Karoo

The Succulent Karoo is a desert ecoregion of South Africa and Namibia.

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Succulent plant

In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants that have some parts that are more than normally thickened and fleshy, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.

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Sympodial

In botany, sympodial growth is a specialized lateral growth pattern in which the apical meristem is terminated and growth is continued by one or more lateral meristems, which repeat the process.

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Tetragonia

Tetragonia is a genus of about 85 species of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to temperate and subtropical regions mostly of the Southern Hemisphere, in New Zealand, Australia, southern Africa and South America.

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Tetragonia tetragonioides

Tetragonia tetragonioides, commonly called New Zealand spinach and other local names, is a flowering plant in the fig-marigold family (Aizoaceae).

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Titanopsis

Titanopsis is a genus of about 10 species of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the arid regions of South Africa and Namibia.

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Trianthema

Trianthema is a genus of flowering plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae.

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Trichodiadema

Trichodiadema is a genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae.

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Vlokia

Vlokia is a genus of flowering plants in the Aizoaceae family.

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Zeuktophyllum

Zeuktophyllum is a succulent plant in the Aizoaceae family.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aizoaceae

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