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Aizoaceae
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Patricia Fall  
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Succulent herbs with CAM photosynthesis and simple opposite succulent leaves with pinnate venation, epidermis with many large, bladderlike cells. Flowers are solitary or cymose, with uniserate perianth, a hypanthium, and many stamens. Ovary is inferior or superior, usually with axile placentation and the presence of betalains. Fruit usually a loculicidal, septicidal or circumcissile capsule.  
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Species within inventory project: Arizona Flora
Aptenia cordifolia
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Carpobrotus chilensis
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Carpobrotus edulis
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Cypselea humifusa
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Delosperma cooperi
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Drosanthemum floribundum
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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum
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Sesuvium verrucosum
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Trianthema portulacastrum
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