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Sarcozona

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Sarcozona, commonly known as pigfaces, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, both species endemic to Australia. They are small, erect or low-lying, succulent perennials with leaves that are triangular in cross-section and arranged in opposite pairs, and daisy-like flowers with twenty to eighty petal-like staminodes and up to 150 stamens.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderCaryophyllales
  5. FamilyAizoaceae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
1
Family
Aizoaceae
Collections
MEL
Recorded in
Australia

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Ruschieae
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taxon name
Sarcozona
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Sarcozona
Commons category
Sarcozona
taxon common name
澳剑花属
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Sarcozona, commonly known as pigfaces, is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Aizoaceae, both species endemic to Australia. They are small, erect or low-lying, succulent perennials with leaves that are triangular in cross-section and arranged in opposite pairs, and daisy-like flowers with twenty to eighty petal-like staminodes and up to 150 stamens.

==Description== Plants in the genus Sarcozona are small, erect to low-lying or more or less prostrate, succulent, glabrous perennials with sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, stem-clasping and triangular in cross-section. The flowers are daisy-like and arranged singly or in pairs with two leaves fused together and partly enclosing the flowers. The perianth is tube-shaped with four or five lobes, with between twenty and eighty petal-like staminodes surrounding between 20 and 150 white stamens and four styles. The fruit is a succulent capsule containing a large number of seeds.

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