CHR 516552 – Portulaca L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 516552
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
25 June 1998
Database record updated:
22 January 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Portulaca
Determiner:
Identification date:
Preferred name:
Portulaca L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Portulacaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Aitutaki, Arutanga
Verbatim locality:
Aitutaki, Arutanga
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4805/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
3 May 1995
Start date:
1995-05-03
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
On sunny bank. Originally planted, now ± wild.
Notes:
Succulent herb. Stems pink, lax. Leaves pale beneath, oblanceolate or nearly so. Flowers 2.5-3.5 cm across, golden; petals 1.3-1.6 cm long, obovate, emarginate. Style and filaments yellow. Stigma and anthers orange. Seeds grey, densely tuberculate. Style branches 4 and ? 5.
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