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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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|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-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs,</b> not viviparous, to 8 dm, glabrous [pubescent]. <b>Stems</b> erect, branching, fleshy but somewhat woody. <b>Leaves</b> persistent, cauline, opposite, sessile, not connate basally; blade obovate, laminar, 5–18 cm, fleshy, base not spurred, margins entire; veins not conspicuous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal cymes, ultimate branches uniparous. <b>Pedicels</b> present. <b>Flowers</b> pendulous, 5-merous; sepals connate basally, all alike; petals basally erect, distally spreading, connate into 5-gonal tube, orange [red or yellow]; calyx and corolla circumscissile at base in fruit; nectaries adnate to pistils forming cup; stamens 10; filaments adnate to corolla; pistils erect; ovary base rounded; styles longer than or equaling ovary. <b>Fruits</b> erect. <b>Seeds</b> ellipsoid, few-ribbed, finely cross-ribbed. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Asia (sw Arabia);s;e Africa.
|discussion=<p>Species 11 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>A. P. de Candolle (1828) narrowed <i>Cotyledon</i> 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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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
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