Aizoon
Aizoon canariense
Aizoon is a plant genus of the family of Mesembryanthemum plants ( Aizoaceae ).
Description
The species of the genus Aizoon grow as annuals to perennial shrubs with prostrate to erect branches. Your internodes are hairy. The leaf blade of opposite or alternate leaves is continuous linear and rotational spatulate to round or oval. It is manned with papillae and distinctive long white hair.
The flowers are in more or less reichblütigen cymes. Your perianth is yellow inside and outside hairy, rarely pink or white. There are numerous stamens present, standing together in groups or form a ring. The filaments are filiform. The fünffächrigen fruit capsules open only little to the capsule center. The fruits contain concentrically ribbed seeds.
Systematics and distribution
The disjunct distribution of the genus Aizoon extends a hand in southern Africa from Angola to Zimbabwe. On the other hand, it is enough in North Africa from the Canary Islands on the North African Mediterranean coast to Socotra and northern Kenya, and from there further east over the southern Arabian Peninsula to India and in the north to Afghanistan. The plants grow in dry areas, often in sand or fine gravel.
The first description was in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in his work Species Plantarum. The genus Aizoon include the following types:
- Aizoon asbestinum Schltr.
- Aizoon burchellii N.E.Br.
- Aizoon camforosma Rchb. ex Spreng.
- Aizoon canariense L.
- Aizoon giessii Friedrich
- Aizoon glinoides L. F.
- Aizoon karooicum Compton
- Aizoon paniculatum L.
- Aizoon rigidum L. F.
- Aizoon sarmentosum L. F.
- Aizoon schellenbergii Adamson
Were spun off from the genus, the species of the genus Aizoanthemum, including Aizoanthemum hispanicum (L.) HEKHartmann (syn. Aizoon hispanicum L.).