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Portulaca oleracea L.
Family Portulacaceae
Common name: Pigweed, Munyeroo, Purslane

Portulaca oleracea L. APNI*

Description: Prostrate to decumbent annual or sometimes perennial, with stems to 25 cm long.

Axillary hairs inconspicuous, to 1 mm long.

Leaves obovate to oblanceolate, to 25 mm long. Flowers in 2–30-flowered heads. Petals 4–7 mm long, scarcely exceeding the sepals, yellow. Stamens < 20.

Capsule (without calyx and corolla) 3–6 mm long, operculum obtuse-conical, slightly longer than the base; seeds black, testa cells stellate at base and tuberculate, the tubercles usually rounded, sometimes pointed.


Illustration
D.Mackay

Habit
Photo Tanja Lenz

Flower
Photo Tanja Lenz

Fruit
Photo L. von Richter

Flowering: August–March

Distribution and occurrence: Grows as a weed in disturbed areas and is common on cultivated land.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, ?SC, NT, CT, NWS, ?CWS, SWS, NWP, SWP, NFWP, SFWP, LHI
Other Australian states: Qld Vic. Tas. W.A. S.A. N.T.
AVH map***

Text by J. G. West
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)


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