In the APG III system several genera were moved to the Montiaceae, Didiereaceae, Anacampserotaceae and Talinaceae, thus making the family monotypic and only containing the genus Portulaca.

Didiereaceae is a small family of just four genera and 11 species of flowering plants endemic to south and southwest Madagascar, where they form an important component of the Madagascar spiny forests.

It is also closely related to the New World family Cactaceae ( cacti ), sufficiently closely so that the species of Didiereaceae can be grafted successfully on some cacti.

Madagascar ocotillo or Alluaudia, is a deciduous succulent plant species of the family Didiereaceae.

For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.

When this experiment is viewed as composed of five binomial trials, one for each member of the family, the outcomes of the trials are obviously not independent.

In Central and South America, the alligator family is represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from the alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

He composed a number of sonnets for special occasions within the Colonna family, including " Colonna the Glorious, the great Latin name upon which all our hopes rest ".

Cereals are grasses ( members of the monocot family Poaceae, also known as Gramineae ) cultivated for the edible components of their grain ( botanically, a type of fruit called a caryopsis ), composed of the endosperm, germ, and bran.

He tells us that he composed his discussions of the family to bless his own, his essays on the riches of Christ to repay his benefactors, his tracts on morality to convert his enemies, his funeral discourses to console himself for the loss of a child, wife, or friend " ( 106 ).

, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.

Nartheciaceae on the other hand is a family composed of herbeceous plants with a rather lily-like appearance ( Aletris ) while Burmanniaceae is entirely myco-heterotrophic group.

The family is largely composed of plants that can tolerate acid, infertile conditions.

This family is composed of 15 official and 1 unofficial members and is further subdivided into 7 subfamilies based on homology.

Killer whales are highly social ; some populations are composed of matrilineal family groups which are the most stable of any animal species.

The glycosphingolipids are a diverse family of molecules composed of one or more sugar residues linked via a glycosidic bond to the sphingoid base.

Mesons are part of the hadron particle family, defined simply as particles composed of quarks.

The other members of the hadron family are the baryons: subatomic particles composed of three quarks rather than two.

She also composed the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner ( 2005 ), based on the life and trial of an enslaved woman who escaped with her family across the river.

The original government structure was composed of a self-governed assembly known as the Arengo, which consisted of the heads of each family ( as in the original Roman Senate, the Patres ).

The family is composed of thirty-one species in three genera.

However, the most common image of terrorism is that it is carried out by small and secretive cells, highly motivated to serve a particular cause and many of the most deadly operations in recent times, such as the September 11 attacks, the London underground bombing, and the 2002 Bali bombing were planned and carried out by a close clique, composed of close friends, family members and other strong social networks.

The law code even mentions the weregeld for a king, at 30000, composed of 15000 for the man, paid to the royal family, and 15000 for the kingship, paid to the people.

Many tornadoes which appear to have path lengths of or longer are composed of a family of tornadoes which have formed in quick succession ; however, there is no substantial evidence that this occurred in the case of the Tri-State Tornado.

Theodore composed a long funeral oration, the Laudatio Platonis, which remains one of the most important sources for the history of the family.

The Strauss family in Vienna for example, while probably better-known for their waltzes also composed polkas which have survived obscurity.

After their return to New York City from a brief visit to Mar del Plata in 1930, the family went to live in Little Italy in lower Manhattan, and in 1932 Piazzolla composed his first tango La catinga.

Charles Martel's family composed, for the fourth book of the Continuations of Fredegar's Chronicle, a stylised summary of the battle:

The ideal home, they agreed, would be a small private house or a city apartment of four to five rooms, just enough for a family consisting of husband, wife, and two children.

Mrs. Child, true to her word, helped place Anna and her four children with a Quaker family named Hathaway near Canandaigua, New York.

The third suborder Sirenoidea contains the sirens, consisting of four species in a single family, Sirenidae.

Blandfordia is the only genus in the family Blandfordiaceae, with four species distributed in eastern Australia.

The Asteliaceae is a family of two to four genera of plants found in the Southern Hemisphere.

The family includes a single genus, Ixiolirion, with four species distributed from Egypt to central Asia.

Until he was four years old, van Vogt and his family spoke only a dialect of Low German in the home.

The rights to the Pooh books were left to four beneficiaries: his family, the Royal Literary Fund, Westminster School and the Garrick Club.

* Salomon, a senator of great wealth who in 1106 engaged in a plot with four brothers of the Anemas family.

He was the oldest of four siblings and his father Kyuzaemon trained him as a child to take over the family business.

* 1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse, where they find and arrest Jewish diarist Anne Frank, her family, and four others.

Cruciferae, an older name, meaning " cross-bearing ", describes the four petals of mustard flowers, which are reminiscent of a cross ; it is one of eight plant family names without the suffix-aceae that are authorized alternative names ( according to ICBN Art.

His father, Ben Selig, had come to the United States from Romania with his family when he was four years old.

The Wills family frequently held country dances in their home, and there was dancing in all four rooms.

Both versions are initiated by a bid of four notrump ( 4NT ), and the entire family of conventions may be called Blackwood 4NT in both versions, or Key Card 4NT in the key card variation.

There are other 4NT conventions, such as Norman four notrump, San Francisco and Byzantine Blackwood, but almost all bridge partnerships employ some member of the Blackwood family as part of their slam-investigation methods.

The nuclear family, in rural Cambodia, typically lives in a rectangular house that may vary in size from four by six meters to six by ten meters.

He freed all four of her surviving children as they came of age ; the Hemings were the only slave family to go free from Monticello.

Newman ( 1977 ) divided the family into four groups, which have been accepted in all subsequent literature.

The characteristics that he believed uniquely differentiate the Western legal family from the other four are

Carson City was in the national news on September 2nd, 2011, when an employee of a family business in South Lake Tahoe opened fire at an IHOP restaurant on the south side of Carson City, killing four people and wounding several others before the shooter turned the gun on himself.

One such family, the Flavians, or gens Flavia, rose from relative obscurity to prominence in just four generations, acquiring wealth and status under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Before the 20th century many double basses had only three strings, in contrast to the five to six strings typical of instruments in the string family or the four strings of instruments in the violin family.

Thomas was sent by the Clauss family in the mid-1960s to help turn around four ailing KFC stores they owned in Columbus, Ohio.