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Portulaca lutea in life
In life — Native Yellow Purslane, photographed by an iNaturalist observer, not this specimen. (c) Forest and Kim Starr, some rights reserved (CC BY)
BISH 666465Botany

Portulaca lutea

Native Yellow Purslane

As recorded: Portulaca lutea Sol. ex G.Forst.

Plantae › Tracheophyta › Magnoliopsida › Caryophyllales › Portulacaceae

Collected by
Herbst, D.R.
Collector number
7423
Date
February 27, 1984
Locality
The island is an active volcano and consists mostly of bare lava. Two outcroppings on the eastern side are vegetated as they are too high to have been covered by recent lava flows
Region
Northern Mariana Islands
Coordinates
20.5167, 144.9000
Identified by
Herbst, D.R.
Record type
Preserved specimen
341 Bishop specimens of Portulaca lutea · collected 1896–2020Species page ›

Where it was collected

Collected the same day

On February 27, 1984, Herbst, D.R. also collected 12 other specimens.

Cite this specimen

Portulaca lutea. BISH 666465. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu. GBIF occurrence 5956294726. Accessed via explore.bishopmuseum.org/specimens/bish/666465.

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