Sesuvium

Sesuvium
	Sesuvium portulacastrum
Systematics
	Eudicotyledons
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Clove-like (Caryophyllales)
Family :	Midday flowers (Aizoaceae)
Subfamily :	Sesuvioideae
Genre :	Sesuvium
Scientific name
	Sesuvium
	L.

Sesuvium is a plant kind from the family of aizoaceae (Aizoaceae). The origin of the botanical name of the genus is unclear.

description

The species of the genus Sesuvium are annual to perennial , herbaceous or shrubby plants that grow stretched out to ascending and have a short taproot . The opposite, stalked leaves are shaped more or less the same. Your leaf blade is almost cylindrical to elliptical or vice versa ovate. The epidermis contains bladder cells of various sizes.

The flower stalks of the single 5-lobed flowers can range from missing to long. The pink to purple and rarely white flowers have two bracts. There are 5 to many stamens freely or at the base that have grown into a low ring .

The 2- to 5-compartment fruits contain numerous more or less round, shiny, black seeds .

Sesuvium edmonstonei

Sesuvium portulacastrum

Sesuvium verrucosum

Systematics and distribution

The genus Sesuvium distributed worldwide in the tropics.

The first scientific description was published in 1759 by Carl von Linné in the tenth edition of Systema Naturae . The type species is Sesuvium portulacastrum . According to Heidrun Hartmann (* 1942) the genus Sesuvium includes the following species:

Sesuvium acutifolium Miq.
Sesuvium ayresii Marais
Sesuvium brevifolium Schumach. & Thonn.
Sesuvium congense Welw. ex Oliv.
Sesuvium crithmoides Welw.
Sesuvium distylum Ridl.
Sesuvium eastwoodianum J.T. Howell
Sesuvium edmonstonei Hook.f.
Sesuvium erectum Correll
Sesuvium longifolium Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Sesuvium maritimum (Walter) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. : It is found in the eastern and central United States, the Bahamas, Cuba, and Puerto Rico.
Sesuvium mesembryanthemoides Wawra & Peyritsch
Sesuvium microphyllum Humb. & Bonpl. ex Willd.
Sesuvium nyasicum (Baker) Goncalves
Sesuvium parviflorum DC.
Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L .: It occurs in Africa, Asia, Australia, on the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, in North, Central and South America, on islands in the Caribbean, in Hawaii, Fiji, Micronesia, Guam and the Marshall Islands in front.
Sesuvium revolutifolium Ortega
Sesuvium sessile Pers.
Sesuvium sesuvioides (Fenzl) Verdc.
Sesuvium trianthemoides Correll
Sesuvium uvifolium Sessé & Moc.
Sesuvium verrucosum Raf. : It is native to the United States and Mexico and is a neophyte on the Arabian Peninsula.

proof

literature

Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 296-301 .

Individual evidence

↑ Systema Naturae . 10th edition, 1759, p. 1058
↑ Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 296-301 .
^ ^A ^b ^c Sesuvium in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved October 22, 2018.

Web links

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[1] Systema Naturae . 10th edition, 1759, p. 1058

[2] Heidrun EK Hartmann (Ed.): Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Aizoaceae FZ . Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41691-9 , pp. 296-301 .

[GRIN-3] A ^b ^c Sesuvium in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), USDA , ARS , National Genetic Resources Program. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved October 22, 2018.