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Trianthema

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-CoreEudicot Order: Caryophyllales Family: Aizoaceae Genus: Trianthema

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Perennial herbs, sometimes woody at base.

Stems: Stems prostrate or ascending, glabrous, pubescent, or papillose.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Opposite. Blades unequal, terete (cylindrical) or flat. Margins entire to undulate. Petioles dilated at base and clasping the stem to form a sheath. Stipules absent.

Flowers: Flowers in solitary or clustered in the leaf axils, sessile or pedicellate, each one subtended by 1 or more scarious bracts. Flowers bisexual (perfect). Calyx of 5 sepals, shortly connate at base, unequal, margins scarious, sometimes with a dorsal mucro behind apex, inner surface colored. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 5 to numerous, adnate to upper edge of floral tube. Ovary superior, 1-celled; ovules 2 to numerous; style 1.

Fruit: Capsules with circumscissile dehiscience; with a persistent perianth; the operculum flat; ovoid or subglobose. Seeds 1 to numerous; black; triangular or reniform; the surface smooth or patterned; often papillose.

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Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Trianthema portulacastrum L.

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Notes

  • A genus of about 20 species, some of the widely distributed, but 12 species endemic to Australia. Name derived from the Greek treis, three, and anthemis, flower, in reference to the 3-flowered inflorecense of some species.
  • Description digitized by Pumehana Imada

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 223 (1753)

Other References

Wagner, W. L., Herbst, D. R., & Sohmer, S. H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, Vols. 1 and 2 (No. Edn 2). University of Hawai'i and Bishop Museum Press.

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
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