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Aizoanthemum

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Aizoanthemum

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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.

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GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderCaryophyllales
  5. FamilyAizoaceae
Native toAngola, Cape Provinces, Namibia
Observations recorded256

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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.

==Species== Five species are accepted. Aizoanthemum dinteri Aizoanthemum galenioides Aizoanthemum membrum-connectens Aizoanthemum mossamedense Aizoanthemum rehmannii

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aizoanthemum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.