Talinum tenuissimum
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24 Mar 2008
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24 Mar 2008
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24 Mar 2008
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Habit and flower
04 Mar 2012
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Habit and flower
04 Mar 2012
| Family: | Portulacaceae |
| Full name: | Talinum tenuissimum Dinter |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Talinum crispatulatum auct. - sensu Wild - misapplied name Talinum dinteri Poelln. Talinum transvaalense Poelln. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Erect or sub-erect perennial herb, up to 40 cm tall. Leaves and stems somewhat fleshy. Leaves linear to narrowly linear-lanceolate, green to bluish-green; margin rolled under. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary, rarely in clusters of 2-3, yellow, opening in the afternoon and fading by nightfall. Fruit a subspherical capsule. Seeds c. 20, shiny black with a white hilum, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, fairly smooth with faint concentric rings (visible with a lens). (from Flora of Zimbabwe website) Perennial herb similar to T. caffrum, tuber flesh reddish-brown; stems prostrate to erect, tough below, up to 40 cm high, sparsely branched. Leaves linear, up to 7 cm long, the margins strongly revolute and meeting at the midrib. Flowers in axillary 1(–3)-flowered cymes; peduncle 0.5–1.5(–4.5) cm long, filiform, often with 2(–3) pairs of bracts; pedicel slender, thickened only below the flower. Sepals 3–5 mm long; petals yellow stamens 8–14. Capsule 5–6.5(–7.5) mm high; seeds comma-shaped, strongly laterally compressed, 1.8–2 mm in diameter, minutely pitted, smooth, the testa cells narrowly oblong. (from JSTOR website) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 14 Mar 2012 |
