Leuenbergeria portulacifolia

Leuenbergeria portulacifolia (L.) Lodé (2012)

🌵 Author(s)	Joël Lodé
🌵 Basionym	Cactus portulacifolius (1753)
🌵 Basionym author(s)	Carl Linnaeus
🌵 Basionym published in	Sp. Pl. 1: 469 (1753)

Etymology

Latin portŭlāca ‘purslane’ + Latin –fŏlĭus ‘-leaved’. For the shape of the leaves. A pre-Linnaean name for this species is Opuntia arbor spinosissima, foliis portulacae cordatis Pluk. (“Very spiny tree Opuntia with heart-shaped purslane leaves”). Linnaeus’s genus Portulaca included the species Portulaca oleracea (purslane), Portulaca pilosa, Portulaca anacampseros (= Anacampseros telephiastrum) and Portulaca portulacastrum (= Sesuvium portulacastrum).