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Trianthema obcordata

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Name

Identification
Trianthema portulacastrum L. [family AIZOACEAE ] (stored under name); Trianthema monogyna Linn [family AIZOACEAE ] Trianthema obcordata Roxb. [family AIZOACEAE ]
Related name
  • Trianthema monogyna
  • Trianthema portulacastrum
  • Trianthema obcordata

Flora

Entry for TRIANTHEMA monogyna L. [family AIZOACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 581, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
TRIANTHEMA monogyna L. [family AIZOACEAE], Mant. 69. DC. Prod. iii. 352;
TRIANTHEMA obcordata Roxb. [family AIZOACEAE], Fl. Ind. ii. 445;
TRIANTHEMA flexuosa S. et T. [family AIZOACEAE], Pl. Guin. 221.
Information
Diffuse prostrate or seedlings ascending, branches flexuose, alternate, distichous, more or less ancipitous; wholly glabrous. Leaves rather fleshy, obovate or obovate-rotundate, entire or emarginate, sometimes mucronate, usually 1/2–1 in. long; petiole distinct, 1/6– 1/2 in., one leaf of each pair alternately much smaller. Flowers solitary, sessile, sheathed by the stipuliform membranous base of the petioles. Perianth-lobes obtuse, with a dorsal subapical awn or apiculus. Stamens 10–12 (or more). Ovary truncate above; style 1. Seeds few, plicate-rugose.
Range
Also in Tropical America and Asia.
Distribution
Cape Coast Upper Guinea T. Vogel!.Upper Guinea Christiansburg, Thonning.

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