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Talinum crassifolium

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Name

Identification
Talinum confusum Rose & Standl. [family PORTULACACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Talinum crassifolium (Jaq.) Willd. [family PORTULACACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Talinum crassifolium
  • Talinum confusum

Flora

Entry for TALINUM crassifolium Willd. [family PORTULACACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 147, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
TALINUM crassifolium Willd. [family PORTULACACEAE], DC. Prod. iii. 357.
Information
Woody below with succulent, erect, leafy, glabrous branches. Leaves fleshy, oblong-elliptical or oblanceolate-oblong, narrowed below into the petiole, obtuse, entire or emarginate and mucronulate, 2–3 in. long, 1/2–1 1/4 in. broad. Flowers red, in loosely forked, terminal, few-flowered, cymose panicles. Bracts minute, lanceolate or subulate. Sepals ovate acute or acuminate. Stamens indefinite. Seeds compressed with radiate striæ.
Range
Also in South America
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea T. Vogel! (cultivated ground about towns) Barter!
Distribution (external)
the West Indies
Notes
Dr. Grisebach unites T. crassifolium and T. triangulare, Willd. (Fl. Brit. W. Indies, 56).

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