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Genus of the Crassulaceae succulent family

Aizopsis
Aizopsis aizoon
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Aizopsis
Grulich
Type species
Aizopsis aizoon

Aizopsis is a genus of the succulent family Crassulaceae (stonecrop family), found in east Asia.

Description

Flowers yellow, chromosome numbers, x=16.

Taxonomy

In 1978, Ohba divided up the very large and cosmopolitan genus Sedum, placing Sedum aizoon and allied species into Sedum subgenus Aizoon. In 1995, he segregated these species into a separate genus, Aizopsis. However, other authors included these species in another segregate, Phedimus, as subgenus Aizoon. Subsequent molecular phylogenetic analysis established Aizopsis as a sister group to Phedimus, which with distinguishing characteristics justified their retention as a separate genus, although the distinction has not been universally adopted.

Distribution

East Asia

References

  1. ^ Grulich 1984.
  2. ^ Gontcharova et al 2006.
  3. Ohba 1978.
  4. Ohba 1995.
  5. Ohba et al 2000.
  6. Hart 1995.
  7. Thiede & Eggli 2007.

Bibliography

Taxon identifiers
Aizopsis


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