Abstract
A diagnostic description of the family is given with special emphasis on the occurrence of succulence. This is followed by information on the ordinal placement, a selection of important literature, and information on the geographical distribution. A short discussion of the family’s position in the angiosperm phylogeny is supplemened by a summary of its past and present classification in a phylogenetic context. The succulent features present amongst the species of the family are shortly summarized, as is its general economical importance. Finally, a dichotomous key to the genera with succulent species is given.
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We acknowledge the EBAS data infrastructure at NILU (www.ebas.nilu.no) for hosting the observational data. We would also would like to thank the GAW framework and the data originators: the Swiss National Air Quality Monitoring Network NABEL (FOEN/Empa) and Martin Steinbacher for providing data from the JFJ, RIG and PAY stations; Dagmar Kubistin, Anja Claude, Christian Plass-Dülmer, Stefan Gilge and Robert Holla from the Meteorological Observatory Hohenpeissenberg for the HPB data; Ronald Spoor and Mirian Wietses from the Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM) for the KMN data; Jgor Arduini and Michela Maione from the Institute for Atmospheric Science and Climate - National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISAC) - CAMM Monte Cimone for the CMN data; Karri Saarnio, Hannele Hakola, Heidi Hellén, Timo Anttila, and Matti Monto from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) for the PAL data; and Simone Andersen and James Lee from the University of York for the CVO data. In addition, we thank Martin Steinbacher, Detlev Helmig, Kjetil Tørseth and Paul Young of the WMO-GAW Reactive Gases Scientific Advisory Group and Sverre Solberg for helpful comments on this Chapter. O. R. Cooper was supported by the NOAA Cooperative Agreement with CIRES, NA17OAR4320101. I. J. Simpson was supported by NASA, grant # NNX16AK04G.
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Eggli, U. (2022). Brassicaceae. In: Eggli, U., Nyffeler, R. (eds) Dicotyledons: Rosids. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85239-9_8-1
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