PORTULACACEAE

I-PORTULACACEAE The Portulacaceae are succulent herbs or infrequently soft shrubs comprising about 20 genera and 500 species further characterized by the presence of betalains and p-plastids. The leaves are entire, alternate or opposite, usually fleshy, and usually with scarious or hairlike stipules. The flowers are bisexual and have what appears to be a differentiated perianth consisting of 2 distinct or basally connate sepals and mostly 4-6 distinct or basally connate petals. The stamens and petals are isomerous, opposite, and sometimes adnate or the stamens may number 2-4 times as many as the petals. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2-3 carpels with a 2-5 branched style and a superior or half inferior ovary that has a single locule containing 1-many basal ovules. The fruit is usually a circumscissile or loculicidal capsule.

II-PORTULACA
1- PORTULACA OLERACEAE

2- PORTULACA GRANDIFLORA

3 PORTULACA PILOSA

4 PORTULACA HALIMOIDES

5- P0RTULACA QUADRIFIDA

 PORTULACA QUADRIFIDA

PORTULACA QUADRIFIDA

6- PORTULACA CAULERPOIDES

7- P0RTULACA RUBRICAULIS

8- PORTULACA TERETIFOLIA