Portulacaceae: Polypetalae

It is also known as purslane family, in the order of Caryophyllales, is a family of Dicotyledoneae flowering plants, only containing the genus Portulaca Linn. according to the APG system, with approximately 100 species, distributed worldwide, mostly in Africa, South America, and Australia. Plants are usually herbaceous, rarely subshrubs, and usually succulent. Leaves are simple, alternate or opposite, entire. Stipules are scarious, sometimes pubescent, or absent. Flowers are bisexual, actinomorphic or zygomorphic, solitary or arranged to cymose, racemose or paniculate