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Aizoaceae
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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
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.  
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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Lampranthus aurantiacus
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Lampranthus roseus
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Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
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Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum
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Sesuvium portulacastrum
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Sesuvium verrucosum
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Tetragonia tetragonioides
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Trianthema portulacastrum
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