- Family:
- Aizoaceae Martinov
- Genus:
- Tetragonia L.
Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze

[FSOM]
M. Thulin. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1–4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Distribution
- Native of New Zealand, widely grown as a vegetable, “New Zealand Spinach”, which has sometimes escaped from cultivation.
- Morphology General Habit
- Robust, procumbent annual, stems fleshy; all parts glabrous
- Morphology Leaves Petiole
- Petiole up to 2.5 cm long; leaf-blade ovate-rhombic, up to 11 x 7.5 cm, base cuneate, ± decurrent into petiole, tip obtuse or bluntly acuminate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, 4–5-merous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4–22
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary 5–8-celled
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit 5–10 mm long, smooth except for a whorl of horns, one below each perianth lobe.
[FZ]
Tetragoniaceae, M. L. Gonçalves. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978
- Morphology General Habit
- A large prostrate or prostrate-ascending somewhat succulent annual with stout trailing stems.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves 3–13 × 2–8·5 cm., rhombic, deltate or rhombic-ovate, obtuse or subacuminate at apex, with the base cuneate and more or less decurrent into the petiole, somewhat succulent; petiole 5–25 mm. long.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers greenish or yellowish, solitary or paired, axillary, subsessile.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Perianth
- Perianth-segments (3)4(5), up to 8 mm. in fruit, acute, green outside, yellowish-green inside, unequal.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens 4-many, solitary or fasciculate, with orbicular anthers.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Ovary
- Ovary semi-inferior, of 5–8 united carpels and 5–8 styles.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Fruit up to 10 × 7 mm., smooth, conical or top-shaped, bearing below each perianth-segment a horn which sometimes gives rise to another flower or branchlet.
Native to:
China South-Central, China Southeast, Kermadec Is., Korea, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Queensland, South Australia, Taiwan, Tasmania, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia
Introduced into:
Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Ascension, Azores, Baleares, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Easter Is., Ecuador, Finland, Florida, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Hawaii, Honduras, Italy, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Massachusetts, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Somalia, Spain, St.Helena, Sumatera, Sweden, Tonga, Tubuai Is., Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, West Virginia, Wisconsin
- Demidovia tetragonoides Pall.
- Tetragonia borealis Batt. & Trab.
- Tetragonia cornuta Gaertn.
- Tetragonia expansa Murray
- Tetragonia expansa var. cornuta (Gaertn.) Endl.
- Tetragonia inermis F.Muell.
- Tetragonia japonica Thunb.
- Tetragonia purpurea Otto ex Sweet
- Tetragonia quadricornis Stokes
- Tetragonia striata Larrañaga
Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mueller, F.J.H.von. [s.n.], Victoria | K000768362 | Yes | |||
s.coll. [s.n.], New Zealand | K000768469 | Yes |
First published in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 264 (1891)
Accepted by
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Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. G. Gilbert [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
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