Genus:
Cotyledon
Life
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Chloroplastida
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> Family: Crassulaceae
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Flowers of Cotyledon orbiculata. [photo H.
Robertson, Iziko ©] |
All eleven species are native to southern
Africa but some of them have distributions extending further north.
Species native to southern Africa
List from
Plants
of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI),
Flora of Zimbabwe and
Flora of
Mozambique.
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