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Portulaca villosa; photograph Eric Guinther / Marshman at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SAEric Guinther / Marshman at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Portulaca villosa Cham.

Portulacaceae · Hawaii

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Portulaca villosa, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca villosa, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca villosa, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca villosa, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca villosa, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsPortulaca villosa, photograph Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

About the genus · Portulaca

Portulaca is a genus of flowering plants in the family Portulacaceae, and is the type genus of the family. With over 100 species, it is found generally in the tropics and warm temperate regions. Portulacas are also known as the purslanes.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Portulaca", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the habitat climate is read only from them, so no sheet is derived.

Climate across the habitat

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Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Records not checked: GBIF's records were not asked, as said under the name.
NativeHawaii · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“annual or biennial” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedGBIF's records not checked, as said under the name: so there are no points on the map, no map marker and no climate across the range; the range is Kew's. Not a statement that no record exists.

Photographs

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Photographs: Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (6).

Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.

Other Portulaca 13 in the reference

Portulaca amilis Portulaca amilis Paraguayan purslane Photo: CC0, author not statedPortulaca cryptopetala Portulaca cryptopetala Portulacaceae Photo: CC BY, Carla Florencia RodríguezPortulaca gilliesii Portulaca gilliesii Portulacaceae Photo: CC BY, Rafael TosiPortulaca grandiflora Portulaca grandiflora Rose-moss Photo: CC BY, Guillermo DebandiPortulaca halimoides Portulaca halimoides Silk-cotton purslane Photo: CC BY, Jo RobertsPortulaca molokiniensis Portulaca molokiniensis 'Ihi Photo: CC BY, Eric KnightPortulaca obtusa Portulaca obtusa Argentinian Purslane Photo: CC BY, Lucas CarbonePortulaca oleracea Portulaca oleracea Common purslane Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinhaPortulaca pilosa Portulaca pilosa Kiss-me-quick Photo: CC BY, Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋）Portulaca quadrifida Portulaca quadrifida Chickenweed Photo: CC BY-SA, Rebecca Ryen-StolsPortulaca rubricaulis Portulaca rubricaulis Red-stem purslane Photo: CC BY, Josiah LonderéePortulaca suffrutescens Portulaca suffrutescens Shrubby purslane Photo: CC BY, Bruce Hartman all 14 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Portulaca pilosa subsp. villosa; Portulaca hawaiiensis; Portulaca caumii. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Portulacaceae
Described by
Cham.
Native to
Hawaii
Records
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Portulaca villosa Cham. (plant_name_id 2574068), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
Habitat climate climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from them
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 699409-1, POWO 699409-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

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