2406.000 Talinum Adans.

Description of the genus

Glabrous perennial herbs (in ours), with annual stems arising from a perennial often tuberous base. Stipules 0. Leaves alternate or rarely sub-opposite or in a rosette. Flowers in terminal or axillary cymes, racemes or panicles or solitary. Sepals 2, opposite. Petals 5 (in ours). Stamens 5-many. Ovary superior, 1-locular; style filiform with 3 stigma lobes. Capsule dehiscing longitudinally by 3 valves.

Worldwide: 39-40 species in southern Africa, C and S America

Mozambique: 3 taxa.

The larvae of the following species of insect eat species of this genus:
Hypolimnas misippus (Common diadem)
Talinum tenuissimum

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
caffrum (Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh.MDescription, Image
portulacifolium (Forssk.) Asch. ex Schweinf.T,MS,MDescription, Image
tenuissimum DinterN,T,MS,MDescription, Image

Other sources of information about Talinum:

Our websites:

Flora of Botswana: Talinum
Flora of Caprivi: Talinum
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Talinum
Flora of Malawi: Talinum
Flora of Zambia: Talinum
Flora of Zimbabwe: Talinum
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Talinum

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Talinum
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Talinum
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Talinum
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Talinum
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Talinum
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Talinum
JSTOR Plant Science: Talinum
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Talinum
Plants of the World Online: Talinum
Tropicos: Talinum
Wikipedia: Talinum

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Talinum.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=563, retrieved 28 March 2024

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