Portulaca

SA
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The New York Botanical Garden
Plants of BOLIVIA
Portulacaceae Portulaca
Depto. Santa CRUZ, Prov. Florida, along what was the
old horse and mule trail (in Theodore Herzog’s time, 1911),
between El Palo and Mataral, 1 km ESE of El Palo, and 0.4
km WSW of jet. of Vallegrande road and main highway in
Mataral.
18°06’55’S, 64° 13’07”W. alt. 1385 m.
Slight slopes and bottom of valley, grazed thorn scrub with
Neoraimondia herzogiana, Pereskia sacharosa, Cereus
comarapanus, Capparis speciosa and edges of cultivated
fields on flat.
Erect herbs; roots tuberous. No flowers fully open (10:55
A.M., cloudy bright), apparently yellow or perhaps reddish.
Coll.: M. Nee & J. M. Mendoza F. 57732 7 Jan. 2011
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