CRASSULACEAE - Stonecrop Family
Succulent herbs or
undershrubs, annuals or perennials
Leaves opposite or alternate, simple without stipules
Flowers bisexual,
actinomorphic, in cymose infls.
Pistils free or united at base
Fruit a follicle
Seed small with little or no endosperm
25 genera, 900 species
Economic uses - mainly as ornamentals
Diagnostic characteristics: succulent, scalelike gland at base of
ovary, apocarpous
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