Portulaca L.
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Plazi |
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Portulaca L. |
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1. Portulaca L. View in CoL 4
Glabrous fleshy herbs with alternate or opposite leaves and small setaceous stipules. Flowers often terminal. Petals fugacious; stamens numerous; ovary semi-inferior. Capsule unilocular, with thin wall, dehiscing with a transverse lid. Seeds numerous, reniform.
Literature: K. von Poellnitz, Feddes Repert. 37: 240-320 (1934).
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