BASELLACEAE
|
publication ID |
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.302862 |
|
persistent identifier |
https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1213417E-FF63-FF61-CBA1-FA434860C154 |
|
treatment provided by |
Plazi |
|
scientific name |
BASELLACEAE |
| status |
|
LVI. BASELLACEAE View in CoL 1
Glabrous, perennial, twining herbs, usually fleshy. Leaves alternate, usually ovate with a more or less cordate base, entire. Flowers in spikes, racemes or racemose panicles, hermaphrodite. Sepals (‘bracteoles’) 2; petals (‘perianth-segments’) 5; stamens 5, opposite petals. Ovary unilocular, with 3 styles and a single basal ovule. Fruit indéhiscent, fleshy, surrounded by persistent sepals and petals.
A small family, mainly in America, and not native in Europe.
Basella alba L., Sp. Pl. 390 (1753), a very fleshy perennial herb with flowers in spikes, probably native of tropical Asia, is widely cultivated as a vegetable in S. Europe and occasionally escapes, but does not seem to be naturalized.
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.