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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
Aizoaceae
Prostrate
succulent
herbs; outer stamens numerous and
petaloid
Aizoaceae
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Perianth
tubular (sometimes
fused
to
ovary
)
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Ovary
superior
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Style
solitary
Trianthema
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Flowers solitary,
fused
to leaf
sheath
. Leaves elliptic to
obovate
, up to 55 mm long with a green
sheath
, not
succulent
. Stamens more than 5.
Decumbent
to
ascending
herb
up to 50 cm high. Weed. Introd. from Trop. Giant Pigweed
Trianthema portulacastrum
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Flowers clustered.