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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: 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, native to the tropics and subtropics, mainly African with five species native to southern Africa. Occurs on saline dunes and beaches, and in riverbeds and marshes.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI), Flora of Zimbabwe and Flora of Mozambique.

Sesuvium hydaspicum

 

Sesuvium mesembryanthemoides

 

Sesuvium nyasicum

See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Sesuvium portulacastrum

See Flora of Mozambique.

 

Sesuvium sesuvioides