Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Talinum mengesii W. Wolf, Am. Midi. Nat. 6: 153. 1920
A glabrous, succulent, perennial herb, 2-4 dm. tall, with horizontal rootstock, the sterns tufted; leaf-blades terete, 2-5.5 cm. long, 1.5-3 mm. thick; inflorescence a cyme, bracted at the forks; peduncles slender, 1-2 dm. long; pedicels slender, clavate, 5-10 mm. long; sepals ovate, 3.5-4 mm. long, obtusish; petals obovate, 9-13 mm. long, 5-6 mm. broad, tnucronulate, rose-purple; stamens 40-100, commonly 50-S0; stigma capitate; capsule subglobose, 3-4 mm. in diameter, angled at the sutures; seeds black, 0.9-1 mm. wide, nearly smooth.
Type locality': Cliff-banks of Little River. Alabama. Distribution: Alabama and Tennessee.
- bibliographic citation
- Percy Wilson, Per Axel Rydberg. 1932. CHENOPODIALES. North American flora. vol 21(4). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
