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Records of
Talinum crassifolium Willdenow and
T.
triangulare Willdenow in Chinese literature are based on misidentifications of this species.
The plants are used medicinally.
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Talinum paniculatum is generally thought to be native west of the Mississippi River and adventive eastward, where it often is weedy. In many herbaria, specimens of T. paniculatum are filed as T. patens. Talinum spathulatum (T. chrysanthum) sometimes is recognized separately, but the few differences are minor and inconsistent, and almost all degrees of intergradation occur over much of the range.
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Description
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Plants to 15 dm. Stems sometimes reddish, slender. Leaves to 12 cm, reduced abruptly beneath inflorescence; blade elliptic to obovate, base attenuate. Inflorescences paniculate, sometimes nodding. Flowers: sepals deciduous, sometimes reflexed, ovate to suborbiculate, 2.5-4 mm; petals red or pink, sometimes orangish, yellowish, or purplish, ovate to suborbiculate, 3-6 mm; stamens ca. 15-20; stigmas 3, linear; pedicel terete, ± uniformly slender, to 20 mm. Capsules subglobose, sometimes obtusely trigonous, 3-5 mm, exocarp and endocarp usually separating after dehiscence; endocarp valves persistent, remaining connate at apex, attached to receptacle by vascular strands from capsule apex; exocarp dehiscing from apex, valves deciduous ± separately. 2n = 24.
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Description
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Herbs annual or perennial, 30-100 cm. Root few branched, obconic, thick, epidermis black-brown, flesh milky white. Stems branched basally, semiwoody. Leaf blade obovate or obovate-lanceolate, 5-10 × 2.5-5 cm, base narrowly cuneate, apex acute, sometimes retuse, mucronate. Panicle terminal or axillary, large, often dichotomous, long peduncled; bracts lanceolate, ca. 1 mm, membranous, apex acute. Pedicel 5-10 mm. Flowers small, 6-10 mm wide. Sepals purple-red, ovate, caducous. Petals pink or reddish purple, obovate or elliptic, 6-12 mm, apex rounded, rarely retuse. Stamens (10-)15-20, shorter than petals. Ovary ovoid, ca. 2 mm. Style ca. 2 mm; stigma 3-lobed. Capsule subglobose, ca. 4 mm, papery. Seeds oblate, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Jun-Aug.
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Distribution
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Ariz., Fla., Ga., Ky., La., N.Mex., N.C., S.C., Tex.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America; introduced in s Africa and s Asia.
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Flowering/Fruiting
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Flowering and fruiting Jun-Nov, year-round in s Fla.
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Habitat
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Moist to dry woodlands and savannas, also desert scrub, grasslands, beaches, on flats, mounds, slopes, ledges, in sand, clay, limestone, sandstone, igneous, often rocky soils and crevices; 0-2200m.
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Habitat & Distribution
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Cultivated, escaping to shaded wet places. C and S China [native to tropical America; cultivated and naturalized throughout SE Asia].
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Synonym
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Portulaca paniculata Jacquin, Enum. Pl. Carib. 22. 1760; P. patens Linnaeus; Talinum patens (Linnaeus) Willdenow.
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Synonym
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Portulaca paniculata Jacquin, Enum. Syst. Pl., 22. 1760; Talinum chrysanthum Rose & Standley; T. paniculatum var. sarmentosum (Engelmann) Poellnitz; T. patens Jussieu; T. sarmentosum Engelmann; T. spathulatum Engelmann ex A. Gray
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Derivation of specific name
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paniculatum: with a branched or paniculate inflorescence.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Talinum paniculatum (Jacq.) Gaertn. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=123120
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Description
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Somewhat succulent herb, up to c. 90 cm tall, growing from tuberous roots. Leaves elliptic to obovate, up to 12 cm long, much smaller below the inflorescence, slightly fleshy. Flowers in lax, many-flowered branched inflorescences, bright pink, up to c. 1.2 cm in diameter. Fruit a glossy dark red capsule, 3-5 mm in diameter.
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Frequency
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Rare as a truely naturalised escape.
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Worldwide distribution
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Native from southern USA to South America and most Caribbean Islands.
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Comprehensive Description
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Talinum paniculatum (Jacq.) Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 219. 1791
Portulaca paniculata Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 22. 1760.
Porlulaca patens L. Mant. 242. 1771.
Roelingia patens Ehrh. Beitr. 3: 135. 1788.
Talinum retlexum Cav. Ic. 1: 1. 1791.
Talinum patens Willd. Sp. PI. 2: 863. 1800.
Talinum fruticosum Macfad. Fl. Jam. 2: 169. 1850.
Talinum sarmenlosum Engelm. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 153. 1850.
Talinum spathulatum Engelm.; A. Gray. PI. Wright. I: 14. 1852.
Talinum patens sarmenlosum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 275. 1887.
Claylonia patens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 56. 1891.
Claylonia paniculata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 57. 1891.
Claylonia sarmenlosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 57. 1891.
Claylonia reflexa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 57. 1891.
Talinum reflexum sarmenlosum Small. Fl. SE. U. S. 415. 1903.
Talinum chrysanthum Rose & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 288. 1911.
An herb, with tuberous roots, the stems simple or branched, rather slender, sometimes woody at the base, 2.5-7.5 dm. tall; leaf-blades elliptic or obovate, 2.7-10 cm. long, 1.3-4.7 cm. broad, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, tapering at the base into the petiole; inflorescence a terminal panicle, 7-25 cm. long, the branches cymose; pedicels slender, 1-2 cm. long, terete; sepals oval to orbicular, 3-4 mm. long, deciduous; petals oval to orbicular, 3.5-4.S mm. long, red, pink, or yellowish; stamens 15-20; capsule subglobose, 3-4.5 mm. in diameter; seeds black, 0.9-1.2 mm. wide, minutely striolate, and occasionally minutely tuberculate, shining.
Type locality-: West Indies.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern United States; Mexico; Central America; West Indies; also in South America. Introduced in China.
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- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Talinum paniculatum
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Talinum paniculatum is a succulent subshrub in the family Talinaceae that is native to much of North and South America, and the Caribbean countries.[1] It is commonly known as fameflower,[1] Jewels-of-Opar[1] (a name borrowed from the title of the novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs[2]), or pink baby's-breath.[1]
Classification
The species was described in 1760 under the basionym of Portulaca paniculata by Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), then recombined in the genus Talinum in 1791 by Joseph Gaertner (1732–1791). In current classification, Talinum paniculatum belongs to the family Talinaceae, it was assigned in the past to the family of the purslane or Portulacaceae.
Appearance
Talinum paniculatum bears tuberous roots[3] and panicles of flowers and produces tiny, jewel-like fruits. Its peculiarity is its very long root, of orange colour , that reaches about 80 centimeters. It is a very bad herb in crops, and it proliferates very easily, since it roots very easily, even after it has been plucked and if it has any part of the root in contact with the soil. The plant as a whole can reach almost 2 meters high measured from the soil surface, where after maturity, its brown seeds (in abundance), spread easily through the surrounding area.[4]
Native range
Talinum paniculatum is native to the southern United States, much of Latin America (such as Paraguay and Uruguay) and the Caribbean. It has been introduced notably in Africa and Asia.[1]
Uses
Talinum paniculatum is often grown as an ornamental plant. Cultivars include 'Kingwood Gold',[5] 'Limón',[6] and 'Variegatum'.[5] The leaves are edible and have been used in traditional medicine in Asia.[7]
Used in home medicine as a diuretic, healing, emollient, vulval and anti-infective, it is also consumed in salads.[8]
Gallery
Talinum paniculatum with fruits and flowers
Growing beneath a brick wall
References
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^ a b c d e Under its current treatment as Talinum paniculatum (from its basionym Portulaca paniculata), this species was published in De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum … 2:219. 1791. "Talinum paniculatum". Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Agricultural Research Service (ARS), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved February 8, 2012.
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^ Jewels-of-Opar, Mississippi State University
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^ Sajeva, Maurizio; Mariangela Costanzo (1997). Succulents: the Illustrated Dictionary. Timber Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-88192-398-8.
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^ Gaertn., 1791 In: Fruct. Sem. Pl. 2: 219, t. 128, f. 13
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^ a b Hodgson, Larry (2002). Annuals for Every Purpose. Rodale. p. 303. ISBN 978-0-87596-824-7.
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^ Winter, Norman (2007-06-28). "Limón talinum is jewel for gardens". Southern Gardening. Mississippi State University.
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^ "Philippine Medicinal Plants Godofredo Umali-Stuart". 2010. Retrieved October 30, 2012.
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^ Roskov Y., Kunze T., Orrell T., Abucay L., Paglinawan L., Culham A., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Decock W., De Wever A., Didžiulis V. (ed) (2014). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2014 Annual Checklist.. Species 2000: Reading, UK.. Retrieved on 26 May 2014.
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Talinum paniculatum: Brief Summary
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Talinum paniculatum is a succulent subshrub in the family Talinaceae that is native to much of North and South America, and the Caribbean countries. It is commonly known as fameflower, Jewels-of-Opar (a name borrowed from the title of the novel Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs), or pink baby's-breath.
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