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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 rose , [ 5 ] table rose , [ citation ...
Portulaca (/ ˌ p ɔːr tj uː ˈ l eɪ k ə / [3]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Portulacaceae, and is the type genus of the family. With over 100 species, it is found in the tropics and warm temperate regions.
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.
P. oleracea flower. The plant may reach 40 centimetres (16 inches) in height. It has smooth, reddish, mostly prostrate stems, and the leaves, which may be alternate or opposite, are clustered at stem joints and ends. [3]
Kadsura induta (Yunnan, Guangxi, Vietnam) Kadsura renchangiana (Guangxi) Kadsura heteroclita (China, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Borneo, Sumatra) Kadsura longipedunculata (China) Kadsura oblongifolia (Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan) Kadsura japonica (Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan) Kadsura philippinensis (Philippines) Kadsura angustifolia ...
Dipterocarpus grandiflorus ranges from Bangladesh and the Andaman Islands through Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo, and the Philippines. [ 2 ] It grows in lowland evergreen forests, most commonly in primary forests on drier sites and forested ridges, from sea level up to 700 metres elevation.
The genus was circumscribed by Nathaniel Wallich in Tent. Fl. Napal. on page 14 in 1824. [6]The genus name of Beaumontia is in honour of Diana Wentworth Beaumont (1765–1831), who was an English gardener and married to Colonel Thomas Richard Beaumont (1758–1829) of Bretton Hall, Wakefield, Yorkshire.
The Clusiaceae or Guttiferae Juss. (1789) (nom. alt. et cons. = alternative and valid name) are a family of plants including 13 genera and ca 750 species. [3] Several former members of Clusiacae are now placed in Calophyllaceae and Hypericaceae.