Calandrinia

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Calandrinia
Calandrinia colchaguensis (8677477954).jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Montiaceae
Genus: Calandrinia
Kunth
Synonyms[1]
  • Baitaria Ruiz & Pav.
  • Cosmia Dombey ex Juss.
  • Diazia Phil.
  • Monocosmia Fenzl
  • Phacosperma Haw.

Calandrinia are a large genus of flowering plants known as purslanes and redmaids. It includes over 100 species of annual and perennial herbs which bear colorful flowers in shades of red to purple and white. Plants of this genus are native to Australia, western South America, Central America, and western North America. Some species have been introduced to parts of New Zealand, southern Africa, Asia, and Europe.[1]

Description[]

Species in the genus Calandrinia are annual or perennial herbaceous plants with a sprawling or erect habit. The leaves are mostly basal and may be either alternate or opposite in arrangement. Flowers are produced in cymes. Each flower produces between four and eleven petals, though often five. Flowers may be white, purple, pink, red, or yellow.[2][3][4]

Taxonomy[]

The genus Calandrinia was erected in 1823 by German botanist Carl Sigismund Kunth.[5][6] It was named for Jean Louis Calandrini (1703–1758), a Genevan botanist.[3]

The genus is classified in the family Montiaceae.[1] It was previously placed in the purslane family, Portulacaceae.[3]

Species[]

As of 2019, accepted species in Kew's Plants of the World Online include:[1]

  • Kunth
  • Gillies ex Arn.
  • (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.
  • Syeda
  • Obbens
  • Calandrinia balonensis Lindl. – broadleaf parakeelya
  • Phil.
  • F.Muell.
  • Calandrinia breweri S.Watson – Brewer's redmaid
  • F.Phil. ex Phil.
  • Gillies ex Arn.
  • Phil.
  • Calandrinia calyptrata Hook.f. – pink purslane
  • Hershk. & D.I.Ford
  • Calandrinia ciliata (Ruiz & Pav.) DC. – fringed redmaid
  • Barnéoud
  • Barnéoud
  • (Nees) Benth.
  • Schrad. ex DC.
  • Gillies ex Arn.
  • Calandrinia corrigioloides F.Muell. ex Benth. – strap purslane
  • Walp.
  • Phil.
  • Tratman ex Morrison
  • Obbens
  • Diels
  • Poelln.
  • Phil.
  • Poelln.
  • J.M.Black
  • J.M.Black
  • Ewart – twining purslane
  • Rydb.
  • Obbens
  • Gand.
  • Calandrinia galapagosa H.St.John
  • Reiche
  • Benth.
  • Phil.
  • Calandrinia granulifera Benth. – pygmy purslane
  • Rydb.
  • Phil.
  • Obbens
  • Phil.
  • Obbens
  • Phil.
  • Phil.
  • Phil.
  • Fenzl
  • Phil.
  • S.Moore
  • Walp.
  • Barnéoud
  • Chinnock & J.G.West
  • (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.
  • Poelln.
  • Goy
  • Meyen
  • Phil.
  • (Ruiz & Pav.) DC.
  • Syeda & Carolin
  • Obbens
  • Obbens
  • Syeda
  • Phil.
  • Obbens
  • DC.
  • F.Muell.
  • Walp.
  • F.Muell.
  • Benth.
  • Phil.
  • Fenzl
  • Syeda
  • Diels
  • Moris
  • F.Muell.
  • (Benth.) F.Muell.
  • F.Muell.
  • J.M.Watson, A.R.Flores & Elvebakk
  • J.M.Black
  • Syeda
  • Obbens
  • Phil.
  • Morrison
  • Phil.
  • I.M.Johnst.
  • Gand.
  • Phil.
  • Otto & A.Dietr.
  • F.Muell.
  • J.M.Black
  • Phil.
  • Phil.
  • J.M.Black
  • Domin
  • (F.Muell.) F.Muell.
  • I.M.Johnst.
  • W.Fitzg.
  • Obbens
  • Obbens
  • Phil.
  • Syeda
  • Obbens
  • F.Muell.
  • Phil.
  • Phil.
  • Phil.
  • Benth.

Uses[]

Calandrinia balonensis is recorded in the 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia as being called "periculia" by Indigenous Australians and that the plant was eaten by Europeans with bread while Indigenous Australians used it as a food when mixed with baked bark. "The seed is used for making a kind of bread, after the manner of that of Portulaca oleracea. (Mueller, Fragm., x., 71.)."[7]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Calandrinia Kunth". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanical Gardens Kew. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  2. ^ "Calandrinia". vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au. VicFlora, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c Kelley, Walter A. (2003). "Calandrinia". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). 4. New York and Oxford. Retrieved 11 January 2019 – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
  4. ^ Elvebakk, Arve; Flores, Ana Rosa; Watson, John Michael (19 March 2015). "Revisions in the South American Calandrinia caespitosa complex (Montiaceae)". Phytotaxa. 203 (1): 1. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.203.1.1.
  5. ^ Kunth in Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 1823. Page 77. Illustration.
  6. ^ "Calandrinia Kunth". ipni.org. International Plant Names Index. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  7. ^ J. H. Maiden (1889). The useful native plants of Australia : Including Tasmania. Turner and Henderson, Sydney.


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