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  1. Family: Aizoaceae Martinov
    1. Genus: Tetragonia L.

      1. Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze

        This species is accepted, and its native range is S. China to Vietnam and Temp. E. Asia, Australasia to New Caledonia.

    [FZ]

    Tetragoniaceae, M. L. Gonçalves. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978

    Habit
    A large prostrate or prostrate-ascending somewhat succulent annual with stout trailing stems.
    Leaves
    Leaves 3–13 × 2–8·5 cm., rhombic, deltate or rhombic-ovate, obtuse or subacuminate at apex, with the base cuneate and more or less decurrent into the petiole, somewhat succulent; petiole 5–25 mm. long.
    Flowers
    Flowers greenish or yellowish, solitary or paired, axillary, subsessile.
    Perianth
    Perianth-segments (3)4(5), up to 8 mm. in fruit, acute, green outside, yellowish-green inside, unequal.
    Stamens
    Stamens 4-many, solitary or fasciculate, with orbicular anthers.
    Ovary
    Ovary semi-inferior, of 5–8 united carpels and 5–8 styles.
    Fruits
    Fruit up to 10 × 7 mm., smooth, conical or top-shaped, bearing below each perianth-segment a horn which sometimes gives rise to another flower or branchlet.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    China South-Central, China Southeast, Kermadec Is., Korea, New Caledonia, New South Wales, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Queensland, South Australia, Taiwan, Tasmania, Victoria, Vietnam, Western Australia

    Introduced into:

    Algeria, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Ascension, Azores, Baleares, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, California, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, Connecticut, Czechoslovakia, Easter Is., Ecuador, Florida, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Jawa, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Masachusettes, Mauritius, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northwest, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Somalia, Spain, St.Helena, Sumatera, Tonga, Uganda, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, West Virginia, Wisconsin

    Synonyms

    Other Data

    Tetragonia tetragonoides (Pall.) Kuntze appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    s.coll. [s.n.], New Zealand K000768469
    Mueller, F.J.H.von. [s.n.], Victoria K000768362

    Bibliography

    First published in Revis. Gen. Pl. 1: 264 (1891)

    Accepted by

    • Park, C.W. (ed.) (2018). Flora of Korea 3: 1-131. National Institute of Biological Resources.
    • Werier, D. (2017). Catalogue of the Vascular plants of New York state Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club 27: 1-542.
    • Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
    • Chang, C.S., Kim, H. & Chang, K.S. (2014). Provisional checklist of vascular plants for the Korea peninsula flora (KPF): 1-660. DESIGNPOST.
    • Garcillán, P.P. & al. (2013). Plantas no nativas naturalizadas de la península de Baja California, México Botanical Sciences 91: 461-475.
    • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
    • Dimopoulos, P., Raus, T., Bergmeier, E., Constantinidis, T., Iatrou, G., Kokkini, S., Strid, A., & Tzanoudakis, D. (2013). Vascular plants of Greece. An annotated checklist: 1-372. Botanic gardens and botanical museum Berlin-Dahlem, Berlin and Hellenic botanical society, Athens.
    • Vladimirov, V., Dane, F. & Kit Tan (2012). New floristic records in the Balkans: 19 Phytologia Balcanica 18: 205-230.
    • Danihelka, J. Chrtek, J. & Kaplan, Z. (2012). Checklist of vascular plants of the Czech Republic Preslia. Casopsi Ceské Botanické Spolecnosti 84: 647-811.
    • Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
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    • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.
    • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
    • Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
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    • Kobayashi, S. & Ono, M. (1987). A Revised List of Vascular Plants Indigenous and Introduced to the Bonin (Ogasawara) and the Volcano (Kazan) Islands Ogasawara Research 13: 1-55.
    • (1984). Flora of Australia 4: 1-354. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
    • Launert, E. (ed.) (1978). Flora Zambesiaca 4: 1-658. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Allan, H.A. (1961). Flora of New Zealand 1: 1-1085. Botany division, D.S.I.R., Christchurch.
    • Jeffrey, C. (1961). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Aïzoaceae: 1-35.

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    Kew Backbone Distributions
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    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
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