Aizoaceae

Information about Aizoaceae

Aizoaceae
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Sesuvium portulacastrum

Sesuvium portulacastrum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Caryophyllales
Family:Aizoaceae
Martynov
Genera
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The Family Aizoaceae or Ficoidaceae (fig-marigold family or ice plant family) is a taxon of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1900 species. They are commonly known as stone plants or carpet weeds. Species that resemble stones or pebbles are sometimes called mesems.

Description

The family is widely recognised by taxonomists, although once it went by the botanical name "Ficoideae", now disallowed. The APG II system of 2003 (unchanged from the APG system of 1998) also recognises the family, and assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. The APG II system also classes the former families Mesembryanthemaceae Fenzl (1836) , Sesuviaceae Horan. (1834) and Tetragoniaceae Link (1831) under the family Aizoaceae.

Most species (96 %, 1782 species in 132 genera) in this family are endemic to arid or semi-arid parts of southern Africa [1], but a few are from Australia and the Central Pacific. Most of these species are succulents and belong to the subfamilies Mesembryanthemoideae and Ruschioideae and are loosely termed mesems or mesembs.

Most fig-marigolds are herbaceous, rarely somewhat woody, with stems growing either erect or prostrate. Leaves are simple, opposite or alternate, and more or less succulent with entire (or rarely toothed) margins. Flowers are perfect in most species (but unisexual in some), actinomorphic, and appear singularly or in few-flowered cymes developing from the leaf axils. Sepals are typically 5 (3-8) and more or less connate (fused) below. True petals are absent. However, some species have numerous linear petals derived from staminoides. The fruit is a capsule with one to numerous seeds per cell.

A few species (especially the Ice Plant, Carpobrotus edulis) have been widely introduced and become invasive. A species known as New Zealand spinach (Tetragonia tetragonioides) is grown as a garden plant in somewhat dry climates and used as an alternative to spinach in upscale salads.

Subfamilies

  • Aizooideae
  • Sesuvioideae
  • Tetragonioideae
  • Mesembryanthemoideae
  • Ruschioideae

Genera

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Aptenia cordifolia or Rock Rose
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Ice Plant (Carpobrotus edulis)
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Jensenobotrya lossowiana
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Drosanthemum speciosum
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Cephalophyllum spec.
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Faucaria spec.Richtersveld N.P.


  • Acrodon
  • Acrosanthes
  • Aethephyllum
  • Aizoanthemum
  • Aizoön
  • Aloinopsis
  • Amphibolia
  • Antigibbaeum
  • Antimima
  • Apatesia
  • Aptenia
  • Arenifera
  • Argyroderma
  • Aspazoma
  • Astridia
  • Bergeranthus
  • Berrisfordia
  • Bijlia
  • Braunsia
  • Brianhuntleya
  • Brownanthus
  • Carpanthea
  • Carpobrotus
  • Carruanthus
  • Caryotophora
  • Cephalophyllum
  • Cerochlamys
  • Chasmatophyllum
  • Cheiridopsis (Carpet Weed)
  • 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

Footnote

1. ^ Chesselet, P., Smith, G.F., Burgoyne, P.M., Klak, C., Hammer, S.A., Hartmann, H.E.K., Kurzweil, H., van Jaarsveld, E.J., van Wyk, B-E. & Leistner, O.A (2000). "Seed Plants of Southern Africa". Strelitzia 10: 360-410. 

References and external links

Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. Scientific classification also can be called scientific taxonomy, but should be distinguished from folk taxonomy, which lacks scientific basis.
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Plantae
Haeckel, 1866[1]

Divisions

Green algae
  • Chlorophyta
  • Charophyta
Land plants (embryophytes)
  • Non-vascular land plants (bryophytes)

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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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Magnoliopsida

Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class of flowering plants. By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its can otherwise vary, being more inclusive or less inclusive depending upon the classification system being
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Caryophyllales
Perleb

Families
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Synonyms

Centrospermae

Caryophyllales is an order of flowering plants that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants.
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Magnoliopsida
Brongniart

Orders

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Dicotyledons, or "dicots", is a name for a group of flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons.
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Magnoliophyta

Classes

Magnoliopsida - Dicots
Liliopsida - Monocots

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms comprise the two extant groups of seed plants.
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A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG II system of plant classification was published in 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, APG, in
Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003).

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A modern system of plant taxonomy, the APG system of plant classification was published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. The system is unusual in being based, not on total evidence, but on the cladistic analysis of the DNA sequences of three genes, two chloroplast genes
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Caryophyllales
Perleb

Families
See text.
Synonyms

Centrospermae

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

Clades
  • Ranunculales
  • Sabiales
  • Proteales
  • Trochodendrales
  • Buxales
  • Gunnerales
  • Core eudicots:
  • Berberidopsidales

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Succulent plants, also known as succulents or fat plants, are water-retaining plants adapted to arid climate or soil conditions. Succulent plants store water in their leaves, stems and/or roots.
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A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be annual, biennial or perennial.

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stem is one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant. The stem is normally divided into nodes and internodes, the nodes hold buds which grow into one or more leaves, inflorescence (flowers), cones or other stems etc.
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petal (from Ancient Greek petalon "leaf", "thin plate"), regarded as a highly modified leaf, is one member or part of the corolla of a flower. The corolla is the name for all of the petals of a flower; the inner perianth whorl, term used when this is not the same in
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fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues.
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capsule is a type of simple, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. A capsule is a dehiscent structure composed of two or more carpels, that, at maturity, split apart (dehisce) to release the seeds within.
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SEED

General
KISA
1998

Cipher detail
Key size(s):| 128 bits

Block size(s):| 128 bits
Nested Feistel network
16

SEED
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C. edulis

Binomial name
Carpobrotus edulis
(L.) N.E. Br

The common name Ice Plant refers to Carpobrotus edulis
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introduced species (also known as naturalized species or exotic species) is an organism that is not indigenous to a given place or area and instead has been accidentally or deliberately transported to this new location by human activity.
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Tetragonia
L.

Species

About 50-60 species, including:
Tetragonia angustifolia
Tetragonia arbuscula
Tetragonia copiapina
Tetragonia coronata
Tetragonia cristata

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S. oleracea

Binomial name
Spinacia oleracea
L.

Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a flowering plant in the family of Amaranthaceae, native to central and southwestern Asia.
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Aizoanthemum
Dinter ex Friedric

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