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- Spores 10–40 µm, finely papillose (sometimes smooth in P. cyclophyllum), yellow, green, or brown. North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Pacific11 KB (764 words) - 07:38, 30 July 2020
- petals, lanceolate; petals 4, usually rose-purple to white, rarely cream-yellow or orange-red, usually obcordate or broadly obovate, emarginate; stamens32 KB (1,609 words) - 21:02, 7 June 2022
- shortly exserted, erect, radially symmetric, oblong or ovoid-cylindric, pale-yellow to yellowbrown; exothecial cells thin-walled, oblong to oblong-hexagonal12 KB (484 words) - 07:00, 30 July 2020
- scales inside; petals usually rose-purple to pink or white, very rarely cream-yellow (E. luteum); pollen in tetrads; stigma entire or 4-lobed. Capsules narrowly10 KB (1,502 words) - 21:02, 7 June 2022
- basal auricles; anther incumbent, operculate; pollinia 4, superimposed, yellow, unequal; rostellum triangular; stipe narrowly triangular; ovary narrowly9 KB (511 words) - 05:31, 30 July 2020
- leaves usually shorter than 15 mm; capsules 3.5 mm or less diam. Portulaca smallii 8 Capsules 2 mm or less diam.; lateral seed coat with densely arranged, flattened12 KB (398 words) - 09:12, 30 July 2020
- occasionally serrulate near apex, margins occasionally with 1–4 cell rows often less papillose and smaller, walls thicker; apex broadly acute to rounded, lamina26 KB (1,447 words) - 07:08, 30 July 2020
- short-rostrate; peristome double [rarely absent], 4: 2:4–6 (–8); exostome white, pale-yellow to brown, or sometimes dark reddish-brown, teeth triangular to lanceolate17 KB (677 words) - 07:39, 30 July 2020
- Plants minute to medium-sized, gregarious to forming open tufts, light to yellow-green, annual to biennial. Stems short, erect, simple or with a few branches12 KB (464 words) - 06:47, 30 July 2020
- epaleate. Ray-florets 0, or 1–18, pistillate, fertile; corollas usually yellow (white in E. gilmanii and E. resinosa), (laminae elliptic to oblong, apices23 KB (1,156 words) - 22:11, 29 July 2020
- caducous, usually (3 or) 4 or 5 (–7), sometimes 0, usually yellow, sometimes white, when yellow, then often ultraviolet-reflecting, margins entire; stamens30 KB (1,654 words) - 21:01, 7 June 2022
- long-exserted; filaments inserted above mid perianth-tube, erect, yellow, 6–9 cm; anthers yellow, 25–35 mm; ovary 3–4.5 cm, neck constricted, 3–6 (–8) mm. Capsules8 KB (650 words) - 06:13, 30 July 2020
- triangular, spatulate, or filiform; petals 5, corolla pink, purple, red, yellow, or white, strongly bilabiate, cylindric to funnelform, abaxial lobes 319 KB (1,040 words) - 19:27, 29 July 2020
- bilaterally symmetric, campanulate, lobes ovate to lanceolate; corolla white, yellow, green, pink, reddish, lavender, or blue to bluish purple, bilaterally symmetric15 KB (823 words) - 19:22, 29 July 2020
- cell lumina; limbidium distinct to indistinct, narrow, pale to green or yellow, 1-stratose throughout; subalar cells inflated, pink, on gametoecial and12 KB (762 words) - 07:37, 30 July 2020
- Perigynia spreading, yellow to dark olive, 1.8–4.2 × 0.8–2 mm, apex gradually or abruptly narrowed; beak straight or reflexed less than 20°, 0.3–2.1 mm8 KB (697 words) - 02:18, 30 July 2020
- Markos Etymology: For C. F. Lessing, 1809–1862, German-born botanist, his nephew K. F. Lessing, and grandfather G. E. Lessing Treatment appears in FNA Volume12 KB (729 words) - 20:57, 29 July 2020
- reticulate, rough-hairy, thin, and becoming membranous, yellow corollas with notched lobes, often yellow, ovate capsules, and minutely vesiculate seeds lacking25 KB (2,084 words) - 13:06, 30 July 2020
- glabrous or hairy, epaleate. Ray-florets 4–16, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow to orangish (sometimes white in L. debilis, often somewhat darker proximally11 KB (916 words) - 23:52, 29 July 2020
- convolute-sheathing, abruptly subulate to gradually acuminate. Seta red, purplish, yellow, or yellow-orange, elongate, twisted when dry, erect. Capsule erect to inclined10 KB (644 words) - 06:59, 30 July 2020