1 "Leaves opposite with bases more or less connate; stamens as many as petals" Crassula 1 "Leaves alternate, opposite or whorled, with bases free; stamens usually twice as many as petals" 2 2 "Leaves alternate or rosetted; petals free or fused at base only" 3 2 "Leaves opposite or whorled; petals fused into a tube for at least half their length" 4 3 "Leaves crowded in terminal rosettes; flowers 6–12-merous" Aeonium 3 "Leaves alternate or loosely clustered toward branch-tips; flowers typically 4–5-merous (rarely to 9-merous)" Sedum 4 "Flowers 4-merous; free portion of petals not or hardly recurved at anthesis" Bryophyllum 4 "Flowers 5-merous; free portion of petals recurved at anthesis" "Cotyledon {Cotyledon orbiculata}"