Trianthema
{{Short description|Genus of succulents}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Trianthema pilosa.jpg
|image2 = Trianthema (7596850138).jpg
|image_caption = Trianthema pilosum
|image2_caption = Trianthema sp.
|taxon = Trianthema
|authority = L.{{cite web |title=Trianthema L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30099076-2 |publisher=Plants of the World Online |accessdate=20 October 2020}}
|subdivision_ranks = Species
|subdivision = About 30, see text.
|synonyms =
- Ancistrostigma Fenzl
- Diplochonium Fenzl
- Papularia Forssk.
- Portulacastrum Juss. ex Medik.
- Racoma Willd. ex Steud.
- Reme Adans.
}}
Trianthema is a genus of flowering plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae. Members of the genus are annuals or perennials generally characterized by fleshy, opposite, unequal, smooth-margined leaves, a prostrate growth form, flowers with five perianth segments subtended by a pair of bracts, and a fruit with a winged lid. The genus contains about 30 described species growing in tropical and subtropical regions, especially Australia. One common species, Trianthema portulacastrum, desert horse purslane, is frequent as a weed in agricultural areas and is widely distributed.{{cite web |last1=Jacobs |first1=Surrey Wilfrid Laurance |last2=Highet |first2=Jeannie |title=Genus Trianthema |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&showsyn=&dist=&constat=&lvl=gn&name=Trianthema|publisher=Royal Botanic Garden Sydney |accessdate=20 October 2020}}
Taxonomy
The genus Trianthema was first formally described in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus in Species Plantarum.{{cite book |last1=Linnaeus |first1=Carl |title=Species Plantarum |date=1753 |location=Berlin |pages=223–224 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/84235#page/237/mode/1up |accessdate=20 October 2020}}
=Species list=
The following is a list of species of Trianthema according to Plants of the World Online as at October 2020:
- Trianthema argentinum Hunz. & A.A.Cocucci (Argentina)
- Trianthema ceratosepalum Volkens & Irmsch. (Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania)
- Trianthema clavatum (J.M.Black) H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (South Australia)
- Trianthema compactum C.T.White (Queensland, Northern Territory))
- Trianthema corallicola H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (Kenya, Somalia)
- Trianthema corymbosum (E.Mey. ex Sond.) H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (South Africa)
- Trianthema crystallinum (Forssk.) Vahl (Bangladesh, Myanmar, Africa, Yemen, South Africa)
- Trianthema cussackianum F.Muell. (Western Australia)
- Trianthema cypseleoides (Fenzl) Benth. (New South Wales)
- Trianthema glossostigma F.Muell. (Northern Territory, Western Australia)
- Trianthema hecatandrum Wingf. & M.F.Newman (Venezuela)
- Trianthema hereroense Schinz (Namibia)
- Trianthema kimberleyi Bittrich & K.M.Jenssen (Western Australia)
- Trianthema megaspermum A.M.Prescott (Northern Territory)
- Trianthema mozambiquense H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (Mozambique)
- Trianthema oxycalyptrum F.Muell. (Northern Territory, Western Australia)
- Trianthema pakistanense H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (India, Pakistan)
- Trianthema parvifolium E.Mey. ex Sond. (Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, Namibia, Northern Provinces)
- Trianthema patellitectum A.M.Prescott (Northern Territory, Western Australia)
- Trianthema pilosum F.Muell. (Australia)
- Trianthema portulacastrum L. – Desert horse purslane (many continents)
- Trianthema rhynchocalyptrum F.Muell. (Northern Territory, Queensland)
- Trianthema salsoloides Fenzl ex Oliv. (Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Free State, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Northern Provinces, Sudan, Tanzania))
- Trianthema sanguineum Volkens & Irmsch. (Kenya, Tanzania)
- Trianthema sheilae A.G.Mill. & J.Nyberg (Eritea, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen)
- Trianthema triquetrum Willd. ex Spreng. (Sahara to Sahel to South Africa, Indian subcontinent, to Thailand, North-east Jawa to Lesser Sunda Island, Australia)
- Trianthema turgidifolium F.Muell. (Northern Territory, Western Australia)
- Trianthema ufoense H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia)
- Trianthema vleiense H.E.K.Hartmann & Liede (Cape Provinces, Free State, Northern Provinces)
References
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External links
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- [http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/get_JM_treatment.pl?265,288 Jepson Manual Treatment]
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