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1 June 2012 A new cultivar microspecies of the Portulaca oleracea aggregate from the E Mediterranean
Avinoam Danin, Simonetta Bagella
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Abstract

A purslane cultivar from Cyprus, previously referred to as Portulaca sativa, is recognised as a separate microspecies and described as a species new to science, which is so far also known from Turkey, Lebanon and Sudan. It differs from P. sativa by its seed surface ornamentation and from the wild P. rausii by its larger seed size.

© 2012 BGBM Berlin-Dahlem.
Avinoam Danin and Simonetta Bagella "A new cultivar microspecies of the Portulaca oleracea aggregate from the E Mediterranean," Willdenowia 42(1), 63-65, (1 June 2012). https://doi.org/10.3372/wi.42.42106
Published: 1 June 2012
KEYWORDS
Cyprus
micromorphology
Portulaca rausii
Portulaca sativa
purslane
seed surface
taxonomy
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