Flora of North America species comparison

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Aptenia

aptenia
Habit Subshrubs, succulent, minutely papillate to smooth, glabrous.
Roots

fibrous, sometimes thick and fleshy.
Stems

prostrate or climbing, green.
Leaves

cauline, opposite [alternate], petiolate, those of each pair equal;

stipules absent;

blade cordate [lanceolate], flat, margins entire.
Inflorescences

axillary [terminal], flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters, sessile or peduncled;

bracts absent.
Flowers

showy, campanulate, 1 cm diam.;

hypanthium conic;

calyx lobes 4, unequal, 2 larger and leaflike, 2 green, tapered;

petals (including petaloid staminodia) 140, connate proximally, white, cream, yellow, or pink to purple;

nectary absent;

stamens 80, arising from hypanthium;

pistil 4-carpellate;

ovary inferior, 4-loculed;

placentation axile;

styles absent;

stigmas 4, linear.
Fruits

capsules, hygroscopic, obconic;

valves 4;

valve lids and wings absent.
Seeds

800, brownish black, flat, tuberculate;

arils absent.

Aptenia
Distribution
map from USDA
Europe; Africa; Australia [Introduced in North America]
[BONAP county map]
Discussion

Species 2 (1 in the flora).

Etymology: Greek a- , not, and pt enos, winged, in reference to the lack of wings on the capsules

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Aizoaceae
Subordinate taxa
A. cordifolia
Name authority N. E. Brown: Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 78: 412. (1925)
Source FNA vol. 4, p. 83. Treatment author: Nancy J. Vivrette.
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