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  • COMMON NAME: Wingpod,Crownpod purslane.
  • ARABIC: الرجلة
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Portulaca umbraticola Kunth
  • SYNONYMS: Portulaca coronata Small.
  • FAMILY: PORTULACACEAE
  • KIND: Introduced
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Landscape (L)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs Succulent
  • HABITATS: Terrace Sandy
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://www.gbif.org/species/3084698 http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000489335 https://worldofsucculents.com/portulaca-umbraticola-wingpod-purslane/ V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
Ornamental plant.
Plants annual; roots fibrous. Stems prostrate to suberect; trichomes sparse at nodes and in inflorescence, stems otherwise glabrous; branches 5-20 cm. Leaf blades obovate, spatulate, or sometimes lan-ceolate, flattened, 10-35 × 2-15 mm, apex rounded to truncate; involucrelike leaves 4-5. Flowers 8-15 mm diam.; petals yellow or yellow tipped with red or copper, spatulate or obovate, 5-10 × 3-6 mm, apex acute or cuspidate; stamens 7-30; stigmas (3-)5-18. Capsules obovoid or turbinate, 3-5 mm diam., with encircling, expanded, membranaceous wing 0.5-1.5 mm wide proximal to suture. Seeds gray, round or elongate, flattened, 0.5-1 mm; surface cells stellate with long tubercles.
Cultivated places or roadside.
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