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(Last Modified On 1/28/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/28/2013)
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Species
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TALINUM PANICULATUM (Jacq.) Gaertn.
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Fruct. 2:219. 1791.
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Synonym
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Portulaca paniculata Jacq. Enum. P1. Carib. 22. 1760. Portulaca patens L. Mant. 242. 1771. Roelingia patens (L.) Ehrh. Beitr. 3:135. 1788. Talinum reflexurn Cav. Ic. 1:1. 1791. Talinum dichotomum Ruiz & Pav. Syst. Veg. I 1 8. 1798. Talinum patens (L.) Willd. Sp. P1. 2:863. 1800. Portulaca reflexa (Cav.) Haw. Misc. Nat. 141. 1803. Talinum fruticosum Macfad. Fl. Jam. 2:169. 1850. Talinum sarmentosum Englm. in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6:153. 1850. Talinum spathulatum Englm. in Gray, P1. Wright. 1:14. 1852. Talinum purpureum Hort. ex Englm. loc. cit. 1852. Talinum moritziana Klotzsch, ex Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. 142:295. 1872. Talinum rose-um Klotzsch, ex Rohrb. loc. cit. 1872. Talinum patens var. sarmentosum (Englm.) Gray, in Proc. Amner. Acad. 22:275. 1887. Claytonia Patens (L.) 0. Ktze. Rev. Gen. 1: 5 6. 1 891. Claytonia paniculata (Jacq.) 0. Ktze. loc. cit. 57. 1891. Claytonia reflexa (Cav.) 0. Ktze. loc. cit. 1891. Claytonia sarinentosa (Englm.) 0. Ktze. loc. Cit. 189 1. Talinum reflexum f. sarmentosum (Englm.) Small, Fl. SE. U. S. 415. 1903. Talinum chrysanthum Rose & Standl. in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13:288. 1911. Talinum Paniculatum var. sarmentosu-m (Englm.) v. Poellnitz, in Deut. Bot. Gessel. Berichte 51:123. 1933.
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Description
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Herbaceous plants, erect, slender, glabrous throughout, the root often thick and fleshy. Leaves alternate, broadly elliptic to obovoid, rarely oblanceolate, 4-13 cm. long, 1.5-5.5 cm. broad, acute to obtuse at the apex, cuneate or attenuate at the base, plane, petiole 3-15 mm. long. Inflorescence terminal, compound, lax, 10-60 cm. long, 6-20 cm. broad, the lateral simple or compound cymes racemosely arranged on the primary rhachis, bracteate; pedicel 6-25 mm. long, dilated distally. Sepals ovate, 1.5-3.0 mm. long and broad, connate at the base, slightly keeled, reflexing and deciduous; petals elliptic, 3.0-4.5 mm. long, about 1 mm. broad; stamens 15 or more, the filaments 1.5-2.0 mm. long, free, the anthers ovoid, to 0.5 mm. long and broad; ovary sessile, globose, about 1 mm. long, 1 mm. in diameter. Capsule ovoid to globose, 3-5 mm. long, 3-5 mm. in diameter; seeds strongly reniform, 0.75-1.0 mm. in diameter, the testa minutely striate, black, indistinctly strophiolate.
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Habit
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Herb
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Distribution
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Southern United States, Central and South America, West Indies, southern Asia and the East Indies.
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Specimen
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PANAMA: Isla Taboga, Woodson, Allen & Seibert 1491.
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