Aizoaceae

The Aizoaceae (), or fig-marigold family, are a large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1,800 species. Several genera are commonly named ice plants or carpet weeds. The Aizoaceae are also referred to as vygies in South Africa. Some of the unusual Southern African genera—such as Conophytum, Lithops, Titanopsis, and Pleiospilos (among others)—resemble gemstones, rocks, or pebbles, and are sometimes called living stones or mesembs (short for mesembryanthemums).

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

Faucaria is a genus of around 8 species of succulent subtropical flowering plants of the family Aizoaceae. The name comes from the Latin word fauces (“animal mouth”) because of the appearance of "teeth" on the leaves.

Acrosanthes is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Namibia and South Africa's Cape Provinces in Southern Africa.

Aizoanthemum is a small genus of plant in the family Aizoaceae, native to southern Angola and western Namibia. It has only 5 species. Before being given their own genus, these species were considered a subgenus of Aizoon. The genus name comes from the Greek "anthemon" (flowering) and for the similarity to the genus Aizoon.

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

Cleretum is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Dinteranthus is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. It occurs in the arid northwestern parts of the Northern Cape Province, South Africa and the south-eastern parts of Namibia.

Zaleya is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family Aizoaceae, found in Cape Verde, Africa, Madagascar, Réunion, Socotra, western Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Australia.

Rhinephyllum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to Lesotho and the Cape Provinces and Free State of South Africa.

Dracophilus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to Namibia and the western Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Apatesia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It includes three species native to the southwestern Cape Provinces of South Africa.

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

Hymenogyne is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Dicrocaulon is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

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.

Bergeranthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the southern and southeastern Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Jacobsenia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Tanquana is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Nananthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Monilaria is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Erepsia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Conicosia is a genus of succulent plants in the ice plant family native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. They are known commonly as narrow-leafed ice plants. These are relatively short-lived perennials with underground stems and tentacle-shaped, dull-pointed triangular leaves. They bear large tubular flowers often exceeding 10 centimeters in width, with up to 250 fringelike petals arranged in a ring around a center with hundreds of stamens. The fruit is a capsule which opens when it gets wet, slowly releasing the hundreds of tiny seeds as they fall out of its drying flesh.

Disphyma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae that are native to New Zealand, Australia, and the Cape Provinces of South Africa. Plants in this genus are prostrate, annual or short-lived perennial shrubs with succulent leaves and daisy-like flowers arranged singly on the ends of shoots with petal-like staminodes, many stamens and usually five styles.

Aptenia was a small genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, which was treated as a synonym of the genus Mesembryanthemum. Species formerly placed in the genus are native to southern Africa. The genus name is from the Greek a- (not) and ptenos (winged), and refers to the wingless fruit capsules.

species of plant

Deilanthe is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces and Free State in South Africa.

Hereroa is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces, Free State, and Northern Provinces of South Africa.

Oophytum is a genus of succulent plants native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. Both species are endemic to the Knersvlakte. Egg-shaped Oophytum plants develop two leaves opposite each other per season. At the end of winter the outer pair forms a sheath from which the new pair of leaves develop. Water cells are visible on the soft leaves giving them a shimmering appearance. The flowers, produced in winter, are white, pink, or a combination of both.

Stoeberia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

thumb | right | Ebracteola derenbergiana in the Botanischer Garten Halle, Berlin, 2022. Ebracteola is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

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.

Cerochlamys is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. They are all succulent plants, with fleshy, water-storing leaves. These plants bear small, somewhat daisy-like flowers, usually in shades of pink or purple. The genus is endemic to the southern Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Neohenricia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to the Cape Provinces and Free State of South Africa. Low-lying succulents, they are found in places that can collect a little water, such as crevices and pans, on sandstone or dolorite, in areas that get at least 200mm of rainfall annually.

Octopoma is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It includes four species native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

genus of plants

Mitrophyllum is a genus of succulent plants of the family Aizoaceae, indigenous to the arid Richtersveld region, in the Northern Cape province of northwestern South Africa near the border with Namibia.

Esterhuysenia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Chasmatophyllum is a genus of succulent plants native to South Africa (Cape Provinces, Free State, and Northern Provinces), Lesotho, and Namibia in southern Africa.

Zeuktophyllum is a genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae. It includes two species endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa. Zeuktophyllum calycinum Zeuktophyllum suppositum

Tribulocarpus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Cylindrophyllum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Hammeria is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Mestoklema is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to Namibia and to the Cape Provinces and Free State of South Africa.

species of plant

species of plant

Vanheerdea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is also in Tribe Ruschieae.

Fenestraria (known as '''babies' toes''') is a (possibly monotypic) genus of succulent plants in the family Aizoaceae, native to the Namaqualand in Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

species of plant

genus of plants

Rabiea is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Leipoldtia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Carpanthea, called vetkousie, is a genus of flowering plants in the iceplant family Aizoaceae, native to the southwest of the Cape Province of South Africa. Low-lying succulent annuals, their flowers and fruit are edible.

Khadia is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. It includes six species native to the Free State, Northern Provinces, and KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Psammophora is a genus of plant in the family Aizoaceae. It is native to Namibia and the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

species of plant

Scopelogena is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is endemic to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Machairophyllum is a genus of plants in the family Aizoaceae. It includes four species native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.

Schlechteranthus is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae.

Skiatophytum is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Aizoaceae. It is native to the Cape Provinces of South Africa.