Members: Sempervivum; Jovibarba.
Content: kaempferol and its glycosides.
BotanyKeys; monocarpic, meaning a single rosette will flower only once before dying; leaves in tight, symmetrical rosettes; reproduction by forming new, smaller rosettes; flowers six- to sixteen-parted.
Herbs; succulent.
Roots: tuberous or thickened rhizomes.
Leaves flat, dentate; in tight, symmetrical rosettes.
Flowers: five-merous; petals 5, free; six- to sixteen-parted; monocarpic.
Reproduction by forming new, smaller rosettes.
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Sedoideae (
Crassulaceae) inferred from the ITS region sequences of nuclear rDNA; Russian Journal of Genetics, 42 (6): 654–661; 2006; doi:10.1134/S102279540606010X.
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Crassulaceae; Genes, Genomes and Genomics, 1 (1), 40–46; 2007.
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