Pink Purslane
Whole
Pink Purslane
Leaves
| Pink Purslane Whole | | Pink Purslane Leaves | | ||
 | Class: | Plants (Plantae) - Land Plants (Charophyta) - Land Plants (Equisetopsida) | |||
| Order: | Betalains (Caryophyllales) | ||||
| Family: | Purslane (Portulacaceae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
| Species: | Pink Purslane (Calandrinia calyptrata) | ||||
| This Photo: | Habit | ||||
| Other name: | Small-leaved Parakeelya | ||||
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Riverland and elsewhere Surprisingly, the only way to truely separate C. calyptrata & C. eremaea (without having the seed) is to measure the width of the flower petals. This one having narrower petals at < 2mm. C. eremaea has petals >= 2mm. We thought we had both, but we only have one photo with a rule on the flower petals showing it's this one. So for now, we've moved all our Calandrinia to this species until we get a chance (hopefully this spring) to measure all of them. | |||||
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