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Description
Family Crassulaceae
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Stems mostly fleshy
. Leaves alternate, opposite, or verticillate
, usually simple
; stipules absent; leaf blade
entire or slightly incised, rarely lobed
or imparipinnate
. Inflorescences terminal
or axillary
, cymose
, corymbiform
, spiculate
, racemose, paniculate
, or sometimes reduced to a solitary flower. Flowers usually bisexual
, sometimes unisexual
in Rhodiola (when plants
dioecious or rarely gynodioecious
), actinomorphic
, (3 or) 4-6(-30) -merous. Sepals almost free
or basally connate
, persistent
. Petals free or connate. Stamens as many as petals in 1 series or 2 × as many in 2 series. Nectar scales
at or near base
of carpels. Follicles sometimes fewer than sepals, free or basally connate, erect
or spreading
, membranous or leathery, 1- to many seeded. Seeds small; endosperm scanty or not developed.
About 35 genera and over 1500 species: Africa, America, Asia, Europe; 13 genera (two endemic, one introduced
) and 233 species (129 endemic, one introduced) in China.
Some species of Crassulaceae are cultivated as ornamentals
and/or used medicinally.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
()
- Reveal, 1994
- Order:
Saxifragales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Crassulaceae
()
- J. St.-Hil., 1805
- orpins, stonecrops
- Genus:
Oliverella
()
- Specific epithet:
elegans
- Rose
- Botanical name: - Oliverella elegans Rose
- Specific epithet:
elegans
- Rose
- Genus:
Oliverella
(
- Family:
Crassulaceae
(
- Order:
Saxifragales
(
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Rose Publication : Bull . New York Bot. Gard. 3: 2 1903
Similar Species
Members of the genus Oliverella
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Further Reading
- Britton, N. L. (ed.). North American flora. 22 1905 [New York]New York Botanical Garden. url p. 27.
- Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1906 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 74.
- Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. 3 1903-1905 Lancaster, Pa.: Published for the Garden by the New Era Printing Co., url p. 2.
- Publications of Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, [1936?] url p. 489.
- Spermatophytes, mostly Peruvian. by J. Francis Macbride. 11 1931 Chicago [Ill.]: Field Museum of Natural History, [1931] url p. 22.
- The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 3630.
- Fu Shu-hsia & Fu Kun-tsun. 1984. Crassulaceae. In: Fu Shu-hsia & Fu Kun-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 34(1): 31-220.
Notes
Contributors
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3476969
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15398745
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:274608-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 274608-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1369137
Footnotes
- Kunjun Fu, Hideaki Ohba & Michael G. Gilbert "Crassulaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 202. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
