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Talinum afrum; photograph Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SABernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Talinum afrum (Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh.

Talinaceae · Rwanda, Chad +18

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Talinum afrum, photograph Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTalinum afrum, photograph Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTalinum afrum, photograph Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTalinum afrum, photograph Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTalinum afrum, photograph JMK, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsTalinum afrum, photograph JMK, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

About the genus · Talinum

Talinum is a genus of herbaceous succulent plants in the family Talinaceae whose common names include fameflower. It includes 27 species native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Indian subcontinent, and Myanmar. Several species bear edible leaves, and Talinum fruticosum is widely grown in tropical regions as a leaf vegetable. More on Wikipedia ›

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

Cultivation

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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.
NativeRwanda, Chad, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Lesotho, Namibia, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Swaziland, Northern Provinces · 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“tuberous geophyte” · “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: Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); JMK, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

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 Talinum 14 in the reference

Talinum arnotii Talinum arnotii Kalahari Butterweed Photo: CC0, author not statedTalinum crispatulum Talinum crispatulum Talinaceae Photo: CC0, author not stated Talinum domingense Talinaceae Talinum fruticosum Talinum fruticosum Verdolaga-francesa Photo: CC BY, Kevin Faccenda Talinum galapagosum Talinaceae Talinum lineare Talinum lineare Talinaceae Photo: CC BY, Ulises PinedoTalinum nocturnum Talinum nocturnum Talinaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kozue KawakamiTalinum paniculatum Talinum paniculatum Jewels of Opar Photo: CC BY, Nicolas OlejnikTalinum polygaloides Talinum polygaloides Yellow Flameflower Photo: CC BY, Michelle W. （鍾偉瑋） Talinum porphyreum Talinaceae Talinum portulacifolium Talinum portulacifolium Flameflower Photo: CC BY, Robert TaylorTalinum sonorae Talinum sonorae Talinaceae Photo: CC BY, Abraham Sánchez Romero all 15 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Portulaca afra; Talinum minus; Talinum carinatum; Talinum peteri; Claytonia afra and 4 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Talinaceae
Described by
(Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh.
Native to
Rwanda, Chad, Eritrea +17
Records
not checked · GBIF's records were not asked: the page has no GBIF key

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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 Talinum afrum (Thunb.) Eckl. & Zeyh. (plant_name_id 2513281), 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 699483-1, POWO 699483-1
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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