Taxon: Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss.

Common names:

• Ceylon-spinach   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – English
  
• Philippine-spinach   (Source: F Guat [as T. triangulare]) – English
  
• Surinam-purslane   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – English
  
• sweetheart   (Source: Mansf Ency [as T. triangulare]) – English
  
• waterleaf   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 8:268. [as T. triangulare]) – English
  
• Surinaamsche postelein   (Source: Mansf Ency [as T. triangulare]) – Dutch
  
• grand pourpier   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – French
  
• grassé   (Source: PROTABASE [as T. triangulare]) – French
  
• grassé grand pourpier   (Source: Mansf Ency [as T. triangulare]) – French
  
• pourpier tropical   (Source: PROTABASE [as T. triangulare]) – French
  
• Blatt-Ginseng   (Source: Zander Ency [as T. triangulare]) – German
  
• Ceylonspinat   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – German
  
• Javaspinat   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – German
  
• pasali   (Source: Mansf Ency [as T. triangulare]) – India
  
• beldroega-graúda   (Source: PROTABASE [as T. triangulare]) – Portuguese
  
• lustrosa-grande   (Source: PROTABASE [as T. triangulare]) – Portuguese
  
• espinaca de Filipinas   (Source: Mansf Ency [as T. triangulare]) – Spanish
  
• espinaca de Java   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – Spanish
  
• espinaca de Surinam   (Source: Dict Rehm [as T. triangulare]) – Spanish
  
• verdolago francés   (Source: Mansf Ency [as T. triangulare]) – Spanish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard, as T. triangulare)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 8:268. 1993, as T. triangulare; F NAmer)
  
• Weed   (fide Econ Pl Aust, as T. triangulare)
  

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  Mexico
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua; Bahamas; Barbados; Cayman Islands; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Jamaica; Martinique; Montserrat; Puerto Rico; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and Grenadines - St. Vincent; Virgin Islands (U.S.)
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
  Northern South America: Guyana; Suriname; Venezuela
  Brazil: Brazil
  Western South America: Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru

• naturalized elsewhere

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Paraguay; Uruguay

• also cultivated

References:

• PROTABASE, the information base of PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa) (on-line resource). [= T. triangulare (Jacq.) Willd.].
• Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. et al. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78:1-581.
• Boggan, J. et al. 1997. Checklist of the plants of the Guianas, ed. 2.
• Brummitt, R. K. 1988. Report of the Committee for Spermatophyta: 35. Taxon 37:445. [proposal not recommended].
• Dubs, B. 1998. Prodromus florae matogrossensis. Botany of Mato Grosso, series B, no. 3.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Funk, V. et al. 2007. Checklist of the plants of the Guiana Shield (Venezuela: Amazonas, Bolivar, Delta Amacuro; Guyana, Surinam, French Guiana). Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 55:1-584.
• Görts-van Rijn, A. R. A., ed. 1986–. Flora of the Guianas.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= T. triangulare (Jacq.) Willd.].
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. [= T. triangulare (Jacq.) Willd.].
• Steyermark, J. A. et al., eds. 1995–. Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana.
• Wijnands, D. O. & J. M. C. Westphal-Stevels. 1985. (785) Proposal to change the citation and nomenclature of the conserved type of 2406 Talinum Adanson. Taxon 34:309–310.
• Zuloaga, F. O. & O. Morrone, eds. 1996. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de la República Argentina. I. Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae y Angiospermae (Monocotyledonae), II. Dicotyledonae. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 60, 74., 1999

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Talinum fruticosum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Talinum fruticosum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Talinum fruticosum.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Portulaca fruticosa L. (basionym)
  
• (=) Portulaca triangularis Jacq.
  
• (=) Talinum crassifolium (Jacq.) Willd.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Talinum triangulare (Jacq.) Willd.
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)

Check other web resources for Talinum fruticosum (L.) Juss.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• PROTABASE: Plant Resources of Tropical Africa's (PROTA's) online resource
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Disseminule drawings: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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