肉质的

Leaves opposite, linear, lanceolate, ovate, oblong, spatulate, or sometimes subulate or subfleshy.

叶对生，线形，披针形，卵形，长方形，匙形，或有时钻形或近肉质的。

Sepals imbricate or valvate, rarely spathaceous, mostly (2 or)3-6, rarely more, usually free or connate at base only, sometimes partly united into a tube, caducous or persistent, rarely accrescent. Petals 3-8, rarely more, often isomerous and alternating with sepals, free, imbricate or valvate, rarely contorted, similar to sepals or not, sometimes with a fleshy adaxial basal scale, or petals absent. Disk present, entire, lobed, or comprised of free or connate disk glands, these extrastaminal, interstaminal, or intrastaminal, or extragynoecial, or disk absent.

萼片覆瓦状或镊合状排列，很少佛焰苞，几乎(2或者)3-6，很少更多，通常离生或者只是基部合生，花瓣3-8，很少更多，通常与萼片同质并且互生，分离，覆瓦状或镊合状排列，很少旋转状，与萼片相似或不相似，有时在近轴基部有一个肉质的鳞片，或花瓣无。

Seeds globose, ovoid, or fusiform, small, sometimes appendaged; appendage caudate; embryo straight, minute, enclosed by fleshy endosperm.

种子球状，卵球形，或者纺锤形，小，有时有附属物；附属物有尾尖；胚直，小，被肉质的胚乳包围。

Herbs annual. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear to lanceolate, complanate, semiterete, or terete, membranous or fleshy, densely hairy.

一年生草本叶互生，无梗，线形到披针形，扁平，半圆柱形，或圆柱状，膜质或肉质的，有密毛。

Filaments short, broad; anthers exserted , sagittate, connivent, adherent to pistil head, lobes spurred at base; disc ringlike or cup-shaped, fleshy, margin 5-lobed, membranous.

花丝短，宽；花药外露，箭头形，靠合，对雌蕊头，耳垂基部具距来说粘性；杯状，肉质的花盘环形或，边缘5浅裂，膜质。

Seeds with endosperm; cotyledons fleshy, epigeous.

种子具胚乳；肉质的子叶，地上。

Bulbs with (1 or)2 or 3 fleshy, farinaceous scales, often covered with a translucent tunic, sometimes also with numerous small bulbels. Stem erect, simple, leafy.

鳞茎具(1或) 2或3肉质的，粉质鳞片，通常为一半透明鳞茎皮所覆盖，茎直立，单，多叶。

Fleshy featherlike warm-water colonies.

温暖水域中象羽毛一样肉质的群体。

Female flowers sessile or subsessile, usually 1 in a row on often fleshy flabellate swollen receptacles.

雌花无柄或近无柄，通常成一排在通常肉质的扇形膨胀花托上。

Stems succulent. Leaves opposite, petiolate; stipules deciduous, intrapetiolar, connate, membranous; leaf blade 3-veined, usually symmetric, margin serrate-dentate; cystoliths linear.

茎肉质的。叶对生，具叶柄；托叶脱落，叶柄内，合生，膜；叶片3脉，通常对称，边缘有锯齿有齿；钟乳体线。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。