Portulacaria

Jacq.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Succulent, glabrous shrubs with stout, sometimes waxy branches. Leaves opposite, succulent. Flowers fascicled on terminal branchlets. Sepals 2, membranous, becoming somewhat rigid, persistent. Petals connate into a short tube with 4 or 5 obovate lobes. Stamens 4-7, adnate to petals; anthers often aborted. Ovary superior, 3-angled or narrowly 3-winged, 1-locular; ovule solitary, basal; style short; stigmas 3, slightly spreading. Fruit a thin-walled, 3-winged nut, indehiscent. x= 11 (1 report, polyploidy).
Distribution: 
Species 3, confined to sthn Afr., Namibia, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Swaziland, N KwaZulu-Natal, Northern and Eastern Cape, in xerophytic scrub.
Classification: 
PORTULACACEAE

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