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Sesuvium

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons >  Core Eudicots > Order: Caryophyllales > Family: Aizoaceae > Subfamily: Sesuvioideae

About 12 species, found in the tropics and subtropics, mainly African with about 4 species in southern Africa. Occurs on saline dunes and beaches, and in riverbeds and marshes

Species indigenous to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI).

Sesuvium hydaspicum

 

Sesuvium mesembryanthemoides

 

Sesuvium nyasicum

 

Sesuvium portulacastrum

 

Sesuvium sesuvioides

 

Sesuvium sesuvioides

 

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