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Portulaca sedifolia

Portulaca sedifolia
Photo: Ana Maria Giulietti and Alexa Paes Coelho, CC BY 4.0
Family
Portulacaceae (Purslane family)
Native range
Venezuelan Antilles to N. South America
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

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Portulaca sedifolia is a species of flowering plant in the purslane family, Portulacaceae. It is native to northern South America, including Venezuela, the Venezuelan Antilles, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.

Other Portulaca plants

Paraguayan purslane · Heart Plant · Pink Rock Wort · Rose moss · Silkcotton purslane · Portulaca intraterranea · Portulaca kuriensis · Native yellow purslane · Tiny purslane · 'ihi · Portulaca monanthoides · Neotropical Purslane

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Portulaca sedifolia by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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