PORTULACACEAE
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1213417E-FF60-FF62-CA23-FA214D76C0D0 |
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Plazi |
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PORTULACACEAE |
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LV. PORTULACACEAE View in CoL 3
Annual or perennial herbs, usually glabrous and fleshy. Leaves simple, entire. Flowers solitary or in cymes, hermaphrodite. Sepals (‘bracteoles’) 2; petals (‘perianth-segments’) 4-6, free or joined below; stamens 3 to many. Ovary unilocular, with 1 to many campylotropous ovules on a basal placenta. Fruit a capsule; seeds with curved embryo.
Several species from America are grown in gardens. Species of Calandrinia in particular are occasionally recorded as naturalized, but none seems to be at all widely established.
Stamens numerous; ovary semi-inferior 1. Portulaca Stamens 5 or 3; ovary superior 2. Montia
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