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

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.

Insects associated with this genus:
Hypolimnas misippus (Common diadem) Food plant
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species

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

SpeciesContent
paniculatum (Jacq.) Gaertn.Description, 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 Mozambique: Talinum
Flora of Zambia: Talinum
Flora of Zimbabwe: 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, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Cultivated plants: genus page: Talinum.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/cult/genus.php?genus_id=563, retrieved 19 March 2024

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