Fame Flower

Talinum paniculatum (Jacq.) Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 219. 1791
Portulaca paniculata Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. 22. 1760.
Porlulaca patens L. Mant. 242. 1771.
Roelingia patens Ehrh. Beitr. 3: 135. 1788.
Talinum retlexum Cav. Ic. 1: 1. 1791.
Talinum patens Willd. Sp. PI. 2: 863. 1800.
Talinum fruticosum Macfad. Fl. Jam. 2: 169. 1850.
Talinum sarmenlosum Engelm. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 153. 1850.
Talinum spathulatum Engelm.; A. Gray. PI. Wright. I: 14. 1852.
Talinum patens sarmenlosum A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 22: 275. 1887.
Claylonia patens Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 56. 1891.
Claylonia paniculata Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 57. 1891.
Claylonia sarmenlosa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 57. 1891.
Claylonia reflexa Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 57. 1891.
Talinum reflexum sarmenlosum Small. Fl. SE. U. S. 415. 1903.
Talinum chrysanthum Rose & Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 13: 288. 1911.
An herb, with tuberous roots, the stems simple or branched, rather slender, sometimes woody at the base, 2.5-7.5 dm. tall; leaf-blades elliptic or obovate, 2.7-10 cm. long, 1.3-4.7 cm. broad, obtuse or sometimes acute at the apex, tapering at the base into the petiole; inflorescence a terminal panicle, 7-25 cm. long, the branches cymose; pedicels slender, 1-2 cm. long, terete; sepals oval to orbicular, 3-4 mm. long, deciduous; petals oval to orbicular, 3.5-4.S mm. long, red, pink, or yellowish; stamens 15-20; capsule subglobose, 3-4.5 mm. in diameter; seeds black, 0.9-1.2 mm. wide, minutely striolate, and occasionally minutely tuberculate, shining.
Type locality-: West Indies.
DISTRIBUTION: Southern United States; Mexico; Central America; West Indies; also in South America. Introduced in China.