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Talinum fruticosum

(L.) Juss. (1789)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Talinaceae Genus: Talinum

fameflower

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Erect, stout, fleshy perennial herbs 5–10 dm tall.

Stems:

Roots: Often with fleshy tuberous roots.

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate, lowermost sometimes subopposite. Blades fleshy, elliptic to obovate, 5–15 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide. Apex acute to acuminate. Base attenuate. Surfaces glabrous. Margins entire. Short-petiolate. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in 2–5-branched, racemose inflorescences 3–20 cm long. Flowers bisexual (perfect); pedicels ca. 8–11 mm long, bracts subulate, ca. 4–6 mm long. Calyx of 2 sepals; sepals ca. 4–5 mm long, imbricate, deciduous. Corolla usually with 5 petals; petals yellow (in Hawai'i) or pink, obovate, up to 10 mm long, quickly withering, imbricate. Stamens 15–40; anthers dithecal, opening by longitudinal slits. Ovary superior, 2–3(–9)-carpellate, soon becoming 1-celled, placentation free-central; ovules numerous; style 1, 3–branched.

Fruit: Capsules pale yellow; ellipsoid; 1–celled; 6–7 mm long. Seeds reniform; compressed; ca. 1.2 mm long; the surface smooth; minutely tuberculate near margins; endosperm absent; starchy.

Ploidy: 2n = 48; 72

Habitat:

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

O'ahu Naturalized
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Gen. Pl.: 312 (1789)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:1076 (H [as T. triangulare]); Wagner & Herbst 1995:25 (O, Syn. T. triangulare = T. fruticosum); Staples & Herbst 2005:467 (DESCR)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Honolulu, Makiki District Park In full sun. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Lau, J. 1717 Oahu BISH 12/9/1985
2 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. honolulu, makiki district park In full sun. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN lau, j. collector number: 1717 Oahu BISH 12/9/1985
3 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Keauhou-Kona, lands of Hokukano, near Puu ohai PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Funk, E.J. s.n. Hawaii BISH 11/6/1991
4 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. kealakekua bay state park, napoopoo Spreading in garden. Associated vegetation: Pithecellobium dulce, other cultivated species. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN starr, f. martz, k. collector number: 000620-4 Hawaii BISH 6/20/2000
5 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Kamoa Point, North Kona In understory of tall koa haole. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Souza, W. Collector Number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 2/7/1985
6 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. kamoa point, north kona PRESERVED_SPECIMEN souza, w. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 2/7/1985
7 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. keauhou-kona, lands of hokukano, near puu ohai Really weedy, scurvy spot. Scattered in gulch. Associated vegetation: Rubus niveus, Jacaranda. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN funk, e.j. collector number: s.n. Maui BISH 11/6/1991
8 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. nokukano development site makai of belt road in capt. cook Common under any sort of shade & among rocks. Favoured by cattle. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN funk, e.j. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH 11/1/1991
9 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Kamoa Point, North Kona In understory of tall koa haole. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Souza, W. s.n. Hawaii BISH 2/7/1985
10 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Kealakekua Bay State Park, Napoopoo Spreading in garden. Associated vegetation: Pithecellobium dulce, other cultivated species. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Starr, F. 000620-4 Hawaii BISH 6/20/2000
11 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Kealakekua Bay State Park, Napoopoo Spreading in garden. Associated vegetation: Pithecellobium dulce, other cultivated species. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Starr, F. Martz, K. Collector Number: 000620-4 Hawaii BISH 6/20/2000
12 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. North Kona; near Leauhou, above White Sands Beach Estates. Under canopy of Prosopsis and Leucaena PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Nagata, K.M. 1965 Hawaii BISH 7/7/1979
13 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. north kona; near leauhou, above white sands beach estates. under canopy of prosopsis and leucaena Wet bank in wooden gulch. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN nagata, k.m. collector number: 1965 Oahu BISH 7/7/1979
14 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Island if Hawaii: North Kona District, Village of La'i'opua, at Kealakehe and Keahuolu; ca. 45 mi S of Keahole Airport Road on Queen Kaahumanu Highway, then Mauka-Makai Roadway (Kealakehe Parkway). In Aupaka Preserve in La'i'opua development in degraded aa lava with Leucaena leucocephla, fountain grass, few Caesalpinia kavanensis, Bidens micrama ssp. ctenophylla, Capparis sandwichiana. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Daniel K. Harder|Keith Wooliams|Peter Van Dyke Harder 4077 Missouri Botanical Garden 11/12/1997
15 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Nokukano Development Site makai of belt road in Capt. Cook Common under any sort of shade & among rocks. Favoured by cattle. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Funk, E.J. s.n. Hawaii BISH 11/1/1991
16 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. Keauhou-kona, lands of Hokukano, near Puu ohai. Disturbed Leucaena association. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Evangeline Funk s.n. Hawaii PTBG 11/6/1991
17 Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss. island if hawaii: north kona district, village of la'i'opua, at kealakehe and keahuolu; ca. 45 mi s of keahole airport road on queen kaahumanu highway, then mauka-makai roadway (kealakehe parkway). in aupaka preserve in la'i'opua development in degraded aa lava with leucaena leucocephla, fountain grass, few caesalpinia kavanensis, bidens micrama ssp. ctenophylla, capparis sandwichiana. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN daniel k. harder|keith wooliams|peter van dyke harder 4077 MO 11/12/1997
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