Dicots
Sesuvium
EOL Text
Prostrate succulent annual or pernnial herbs. Leaves alternate or opposite. Stipules 0. Flowers solitary, axillary, actinomorphic. Perianth segments 5; lobes trangular, apiculate from the back just below the apex; green outside, pink or purple inside. Stamens 5-numerous, free, inserted at mouth of perianth tube. Ovary superior, consisting of 2-3 united carpels, 2-3-locular, with numerous ovules per loculus. Styles 2-3. Fruit a conical circumscissile capsule with a pointed lid. Seeds black with a prominent hilum.
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Depth range based on 16 specimens in 3 taxa.
Environmental ranges
Depth range (m): 0.5 - 0.5
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:16
Specimens with Sequences:16
Specimens with Barcodes:11
Species:6
Species With Barcodes:6
Public Records:13
Public Species:6
Public BINs:0
Sesuvium is a genus of flowering plants in the ice plant family, Aizoaceae. The roughly eight species it contains are commonly known as sea-purslanes.[2]
Selected species
- Sesuvium crithmoides Welw. – Tropical Sea-purslane
- Sesuvium edmonstonei Hook.f.
- Sesuvium maritimum (Walter) B.S.P. – Slender Sea-purslane
- Sesuvium microphyllum Willd. – Galápagos Carpet Weed
- Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L. – Shoreline Sea-purslane
- Sesuvium sessile Pers. – Western Sea-purslane
- Sesuvium trianthemoides Correll – Texas Sea-purslane
- Sesuvium verrucosum Raf. – Verrucose Sea-purslane[2]
References
- ^ "Sesuvium L.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2009-06-09. http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?11105. Retrieved 2010-06-17.
- ^ a b "Sesuvium". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=19903. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
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