Calandrinia feltonii

Calandrinia feltonii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Family: Portulacaceae
Genus: Calandrinia
Species: C. feltonii
Binomial name
Calandrinia feltonii
Skottsb.

Calandrinia feltonii is a species of flowering plant in the purslane family known by the common name Felton's flower. It is named after Arthur Felton, a resident of the Falkland Islands, who sent specimens of the plant in 1910 to Swedish botanist Carl Skottsberg.[1]

It is endemic to the Falklands where it nearly became extinct in the wild through overgrazing. It is an annual herb, low-growing and fleshy, with bright, pinkish-purple flowers.[1]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 Hince (2000), p.127.

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