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COMMON ICEPLANT [1 record]

Record 1 2010-09-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
OBS

Old World annual herb (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum) that is widely naturalized in warm regions and that has fleshy foliage covered with glistening papillate dots or vesicles.

Key term(s)
  • common ice plant

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Mesembryanthemum crystallinum
Latin
OBS

Plante rampante, à feuilles opposées, épaisses, charnues, couvertes de papilles brillantes donnant l'impression qu'elles sont couvertes de givre (d'où les noms de Cristalline et de Glaciale donnés à certaines espèces).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
DEF

Herbácea [perteneciente a la familia Aizoáceas], cubierta de papilas cristalinas, como escarcha [con] tallos decumbentes, de hasta 30 cm, ramificados desde la base [y] hojas ovales, planas, carnosas, opuestas y cortamente pecioladas las inferiores, [posee] flores blancas, actinomorfas, hermafroditas, periginas, de unos 3 cm de diámetro, [con] fruto capsular, globoso, de unos 12 mm, dehiscente en 5 valvas.

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