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The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising 115 species in a single genus Portulaca. [2] 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 ...
Overview of purslane. Portulacaceae, the purslane family of flowering plants, in the order Caryophyllales, with about 15 genera and 500 species of herbs or small shrubs, native primarily to the Pacific coast of North America and southern South America. Members of the family have leaves that often are fleshy and sometimes form rosettes at the ...
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Portulaca multistaminata Poelln. Portulaca Grandiflora. Portulaca grandiflora is a succulent flowering plant in the purslane family Portulacaceae, native to southern Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay and often cultivated in gardens. [2] [3] It has many common names, including rose moss, [4] eleven o'clock, [3] Mexican rose, [3] moss rose, [3] sun ...
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The Portulacaceae are a family of flowering plants, comprising about 20 genera with about 500 species, ranging from herbaceous plants to shrubs.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 ...
Dec 1, 2013 · The Portulacaceae are known to have type I C 3-C 4 intermediate species (Voznesenskaya et al., 2010), a system that enhances photosynthesis by refixing photorespired CO 2 in the BS cells and has C 3 type carbon isotope composition without any development of C 4 biochemistry (for discussion of type I and II intermediates see Edwards and Ku, 1987 ...
40. Portulacaceae Adanson. Subshrubs [shrubs] or herbs, annual, biennial, or perennial, often succulent or fleshy. Leaves opposite, subopposite, or alternate and sometimes secund, sometimes rosulate or subrosulate, exstipulate (except Portulaca and Talinopsis, with nodal or axillary hairs regarded as stipular); blade margins mostly entire ...
