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Portulaca Bicolor
Portulaca bicolor is a succulent species of the family Portulacaceae The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus '' Portulaca''. Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera ... with cylindrical leaves and red stems. Flowering all year the plant is common to coastal regions of Australia. External linksOnline Field guide to Common Saltmarsh Plants of Queensland References bicolor Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller {{Caryophyllales-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portulacaceae
The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus '' Portulaca''. Formerly some 20 genera with about 500 species, were placed there, but it is now restricted to encompass only one genus, the other genera being placed elsewhere. The family has been recognised by most taxonomists, and is also known as the purslane family. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, with the highest diversity in semiarid regions of the Southern Hemisphere in Africa, Australia, and South America, but with a few species also extending north into Arctic regions. The family is very similar to the Caryophyllaceae, differing in the calyx, which has only two sepals. The APG II system (2003; unchanged from the APG system of 1998) assigns it to the order Caryophyllales in the clade core eudicots. In the APG III system, several genera were moved to the Montiaceae, Didiereaceae, Anacampserotaceae and Talinaceae, thus making the family monotypic and only containing the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ... country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portulaca
''Portulaca'' (, is the type genus of the flowering plant family Portulacaceae, with over 100 species, found in the tropics and warm temperate regions. They are known as the purslanes. Common purslane (''Portulaca oleracea'') is widely consumed as an edible plant, and in some areas it is invasive. '' Portulaca grandiflora'' is a well-known ornamental garden plant. Purslanes are relished by chickens. Some ''Portulaca'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the nutmeg moth (''Hadula trifolii''). Species The following species are accepted: *'' Portulaca africana'' (Danin & H.G.Baker) Danin – Western Africa to south China *'' Portulaca almeviae'' Ocampo – Mexico *''Portulaca amilis'' Speg. – Paraguayan purslane – Peru to Brazil and N. Argentina *'' Portulaca anceps'' A.Rich. – Ethiopia *'' Portulaca argentinensis'' Speg. – Argentina *'' Portulaca aurantiaca'' Proctor – Jamaica *'' Portulaca australis'' Endl. – N. & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
