Portulaca umbraticola

Portulaca umbraticola Kunth

Family: Portulacaceae
Synonyms: Portulaca coronata Small, Portulaca denudata Poelln., Portulaca lanceolata Engelm., Portulaca lanceolata Haw.
Portulaca lanceolata var. minor Engelm., Portulaca lanceolata var. versicolor Engelm. Portulaca plano-operculata Kuntze, Portulaca umbraticola subsp. coronata (Small) J.F.Matthews & Ketron, Portulaca umbraticola subsp. umbraticola

Common name: Wingpod Purslane, Crownpod Purslane
Finnish: Kruunuportulakka

Description: 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.

Entire plant: emollient [ Medicinal flora of Argentina]

5 Published articles of Portulaca umbraticola
1. INFLUNCE OF TIME OF BENZYLADENINE APPLICATION ON ROOTING OF CUTTINGS AND SUBSEQUENT DEVELOPMENT OF Portulaca utnbraticola Kunth
By: Wroblewska, Katarzyna; Debicz, Regina
ACTA SCIENTIARUM POLONORUM-HORTORUM CULTUS  Volume: 12   Issue: 1   Pages: 89-99   Published: 2013

2. THE EFFECT OF SILICON FOLIAR APPLICATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SEASONAL ORNAMENTAL PLANTS. PART I: Sanvitalia speciosa 'Sunbini', Verbena 'Patio Blue' AND Portulaca umbraticola 'Duna Red'
By: Debicz, Regina; Wroblewska, Katarzyna
Acta Agrobotanica  Volume: 64   Issue: 4   Pages: 99-106   Published: 2011

3. The effect of benzyladenine and naphthalene acetic acid on rooting and subsequent growth of Portulaca umbraticola Kunth
By: Wroblewska, Katarzyna; Babelewski, Przemyslaw
Folia Horticulturae  Volume: 22   Issue: 2   Pages: 39-44   Published: 2010

4. SELF-POLLINATION SHORTENS FLOWER LIFE-SPAN IN PORTULACA-UMBRATICOLA HBK (PORTULACACEAE)
By: AIZEN, MA
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES  Volume: 154   Issue: 3   Pages: 412-415   Published: SEP 1993
  
5. Portulaca umbraticola Kunth (Portulacaceae) in the United States
By: Matthews, James F.; Ketron, Donna W.; Zane, Sandra F.
Castanea  Volume: 57   Issue: 3   Pages: 202-208   Published: 1992