Preliminary Aizoaceae Capsule Key

1. Closing bodies absent

2. Covering membranes absent or vestigial, expanding keels parallel.
3. Placenta axile, capsule texture corky, wings fused to valves.
Mesembryanthemum-type
4. Placenta generally parietal or basal, capsule texture woody, wings
free of valves.
Delosperma-type
2. Covering membranes present, expanding keels divergent.
3. Covering membranes translucent Drosanthemum-type
4. Covering membranes, rigid, not translucent,
Lampranthus-type
1. Closing bodies and covering membranes present.

2. Closing bodies small Ruschia-type

3. Closing bodies large Leipoldtia-type

Phil Bunch 04/08/2001