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|accepted_name=Cotyledon
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 429. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5., 196. 1754, name conserved ,
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Crassulaceae;Cotyledon
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Crassulaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cotyledon]]</div></div>
|etymology=Greek kotyledon, a cup-shaped hollow, alluding to leaf form of a plant now placed in Umbilicus
|volume=Volume 8
|mention_page=page 148, 149, 172
|treatment_page=page 156
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism reproduction;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism pubescence;whole_organism growth form"><b>Shrubs,</b> not viviparous, to 8 dm, glabrous [pubescent].</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="stem orientation;stem architecture;stem texture;stem texture"><b>Stems </b>erect, branching, fleshy but somewhat woody.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="leaf duration;cauline leaf arrangement;cauline leaf architecture;cauline leaf fusion"><b>Leaves </b>persistent, cauline, opposite, sessile, not connate basally;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="blade shape;blade position;blade some measurement;blade texture;base architecture or shape;margin architecture or shape">blade obovate, laminar, 5–18 cm, fleshy, base not spurred, margins entire;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="vein prominence">veins not conspicuous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="ultimate branch architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>terminal cymes, ultimate branches uniparous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="pedicel presence"><b>Pedicels </b>present.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="flower orientation;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>pendulous, 5-merous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="sepal fusion;sepal variability">sepals connate basally, all alike;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="petal orientation;petal orientation;petal fusion;petal coloration;tube shape">petals basally erect, distally spreading, connate into 5-gonal tube, orange [red or yellow];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="calyx dehiscence;corolla dehiscence">calyx and corolla circumscissile at base in fruit;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="nectary fusion">nectaries adnate to pistils forming cup;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="stamen quantity">stamens 10;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="filament fusion">filaments adnate to corolla;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="pistil orientation">pistils erect;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="ovary base shape">ovary base rounded;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="style length or size;ovary variability">styles longer than or equaling ovary.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="fruit orientation"><b>Fruits </b>erect.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties=""><b>Seeds </b>ellipsoid, few-ribbed, finely cross-ribbed.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="seed shape;seed architecture or shape;seed architecture or shape;x chromosome quantity">x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Asia (sw Arabia);s;e Africa
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species 11 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A. P. de Candolle (1828) narrowed Cotyledon to a natural group of African plants, for which C. H. Uhl (1948) found a distinctive karyotype, with x = 9 rather large chromosomes. H. R. Toelken (1985) further recognized two segregates, Adromischus Lemaire and Tylocodon Toelken, not in the flora area.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Cotyledon
|author=Reid V. Moran
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Crassulaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Asia (sw Arabia);s;e Africa
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;
|special status=
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|genus=Cotyledon
|base architecture or shape=not spurred
|blade position=laminar
|blade shape=obovate
|blade some measurement=5cm;18cm
|blade texture=fleshy
|calyx dehiscence=circumscissile
|cauline leaf architecture=sessile
|cauline leaf arrangement=opposite
|cauline leaf fusion=connate
|corolla dehiscence=circumscissile
|filament fusion=adnate
|flower architecture=5-merous
|flower orientation=pendulous
|fruit orientation=erect
|leaf duration=persistent
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|nectary fusion=adnate
|ovary base shape=rounded
|ovary variability=equaling
|pedicel presence=absent
|petal coloration=orange
|petal fusion=connate
|petal orientation=spreading;erect
|pistil orientation=erect
|seed architecture or shape=cross-ribbed;few-ribbed
|seed shape=ellipsoid
|sepal fusion=connate
|sepal variability=alike
|stamen quantity=10
|stem architecture=branching
|stem orientation=erect
|stem texture=woody;fleshy
|style length or size=longer
|tube shape=5-gonal
|ultimate branch architecture=uniparous
|vein prominence=not conspicuous
|whole_organism growth form=shrub
|whole_organism pubescence=glabrous
|whole_organism reproduction=not viviparous
|whole_organism some measurement=0dm;8dm
|x chromosome quantity=9
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