Spores 10–40 µm, finely papillose (sometimes smooth in P. cyclophyllum), yellow, green, or brown. North America, South America, Eurasia, Africa, Pacific
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petals, lanceolate; petals 4, usually rose-purple to white, rarely cream-yellow or orange-red, usually obcordate or broadly obovate, emarginate; stamens
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shortly exserted, erect, radially symmetric, oblong or ovoid-cylindric, pale-yellow to yellowbrown; exothecial cells thin-walled, oblong to oblong-hexagonal
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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 narrowly
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basal auricles; anther incumbent, operculate; pollinia 4, superimposed, yellow, unequal; rostellum triangular; stipe narrowly triangular; ovary narrowly
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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, flattened
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occasionally serrulate near apex, margins occasionally with 1–4 cell rows often less papillose and smaller, walls thicker; apex broadly acute to rounded, lamina
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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 lanceolate
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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 branches
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epaleate. Ray-florets 0, or 1–18, pistillate, fertile; corollas usually yellow (white in E. gilmanii and E. resinosa), (laminae elliptic to oblong, apices
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caducous, usually (3 or) 4 or 5 (–7), sometimes 0, usually yellow, sometimes white, when yellow, then often ultraviolet-reflecting, margins entire; stamens
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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. Capsules
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triangular, spatulate, or filiform; petals 5, corolla pink, purple, red, yellow, or white, strongly bilabiate, cylindric to funnelform, abaxial lobes 3
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bilaterally symmetric, campanulate, lobes ovate to lanceolate; corolla white, yellow, green, pink, reddish, lavender, or blue to bluish purple, bilaterally symmetric
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cell lumina; limbidium distinct to indistinct, narrow, pale to green or yellow, 1-stratose throughout; subalar cells inflated, pink, on gametoecial and
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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 mm
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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 Volume
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reticulate, rough-hairy, thin, and becoming membranous, yellow corollas with notched lobes, often yellow, ovate capsules, and minutely vesiculate seeds lacking
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glabrous or hairy, epaleate. Ray-florets 4–16, pistillate, fertile; corollas yellow to orangish (sometimes white in L. debilis, often somewhat darker proximally
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convolute-sheathing, abruptly subulate to gradually acuminate. Seta red, purplish, yellow, or yellow-orange, elongate, twisted when dry, erect. Capsule erect to inclined
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