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Desert Research Learning Center, Botany Program
Succulent herbs with CAM photosynthesis and simple opposite succulent leaves with pinnate venation, epidermis with many large, bladderlike cells. Flowers are solitary or cymose, with uniserate perianth, a hypanthium, and many stamens. Ovary is inferior or superior, usually with axile placentation and the presence of betalains. Fruit usually a loculicidal, septicidal or circumcissile capsule.  
Species within checklist: Las Cienegas National Conservation Area
Trianthema portulacastrum
Image of Trianthema portulacastrum

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [MG-70-19-0057-19].
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