Portulacaceae
Portulaca

Portulaca peteri Poelln.

First published in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 48: 186 (1940)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Ethiopia to NE. Tanzania. It is an annual or subshrub and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Descriptions

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

Portulacaceae, Sylvia M. Phillips. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2002

Morphology General Habit
Prostrate slender perennial; stems straggling, rooting and branching at the nodes; nodes with a conspicuous whorl of white woolly hairs up to 8 mm long.
Morphology Leaves
Leaves opposite, obovate, 9–13 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, very shortly petiolate, apex rounded, densely papillose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Flowers solitary at the stem tips, surrounded by an involucre of 4 leaves and a dense circlet of axillary hairs.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Sepals ovate, 4–6 mm long; petals 4, yellow, 5–8 mm long; stamens 11–19; stigma 4-branched.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Capsule dehiscing near the base, lid conical; seeds 1 mm long, grey or brownish-grey, testa cells shallowly convex, the margins somewhat sinuous.
Habitat
Dense shade under bushes in deciduous bushland and thicket; 30–950 m
Distribution
K3 K7 T3
[FTEA]

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • 'The Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet http://www.kew.org/herbcat [accessed on Day Month Year]'. Please enter the date on which you consulted the system.
    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0