Talinella, Baill.

Applequist, Wendy L., 2005, A revision of the Malagasy endemic Talinella (Portulacaceae), Adansonia (3) 27 (1), pp. 47-80 : 50

TALINELLA Baill.

Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris 1 (72): 569 (1886). —

Type species: Talinella boiviniana Baill.

Sabouraea Leandri, Adansonia , sér. 2, 2: 224 (1962). — Type species: Sabouraea sarmentosa Leandri.

Shrubs, or rarely erect, caudiciform small trees, frequently with sarmentose lianoid branches; dioecious or possibly sometimes gynodioecious; twigs often longitudinally ridged or wrinkled, with lenticels present or absent, the smallest twigs glabrous or papillose with white or white and brown papillae. Leaves alternate, sometimes clustered on short shoots, short-petioled, often fleshy, often inconspicuously bullate, rarely pubescent; apex variable, frequently asymmetrical; margins entire or rarely papillate or ciliate, sometimes deeply revolute; venation pinnate, secondary venation visible or not. Inflorescences terminal or lateral, sometimes numerous, usually paniculiform, the ultimate branching dichasial, small and few-flowered to large and many-flowered, open to compact; dichasial branches usually subtended by small triangular bracts. Sepals 2, convex, occasionally unequal or fleshy, glabrous or rarely pubescent; petals 2-5, often convex or irregularly fused, white to pale green or yellowish or deep pink to purple; stamens usually about 20 in 2 whorls, occasionally fewer, the outer filaments glabrous, the lower portion of inner filaments ciliate or irregularly broadened at least at the base, sometimes attached to a nectar disk; ovary 2-3(-4)-loculed; stigmas 2 to 3, elongated, terete or flattened, glabrous, papillose or barely ciliate, sessile or borne on a single style. Fruit a berry or apically dehiscing capsule; seeds 1- 9 per fruit, black or rarely dark gray, glossy, laterally compressed, reniform to suborbicular.

Endemic to Madagascar, with centers of diversity in the southern and extreme northern portions of the country. Twelve species are known.