Plants usually dwarf shrubs, rearely small caudiciform trees, often with tubersour roots or rootstock. Leaves alternate, cometimes clustered on short shoots, flat, slightly succulent, glabrous or tomentose, mucilaginous, bases sometimes asymmetric, margins usually entire, rarely papillate or ciliated, sometimes deeply revolute, tips variable;axils usually with inconspicuous, rudimentary short shoots. Inflorescences terminal or lateral, open to compact panicles or flowers axilllary and solitary. Flowers small to medium-sized, radially symmetric, usually bisexual, sometimes both flowers and plants unisexual or flowers gynodioecious; sepals 2, deciduous or persistent; petals usually 2-5, if fewer than 5, not clearly separated from the depals; stamens 15-35, sometimes attached to a nectary disk; ovaries superior, 1-locular, with 3-5 carpels. Fruits mucilaginous berriesor many-seeded loculicidal capsules surrounded by the persistent perianth, valves deciduous; seeds usually black, rarely dark grey, glossy, with strophioles.
The Talinaceae is a family of two genera, Amphipetalum and and Talinum, and 28 species. They are native to the Americas, Africa, and Madagascar. One species, Talinum portulacifolium, is native in much of Africa, including both Somaliland and Somalia.
References
Walters, M. & E. Figueredo. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272383627_Talinaceae Accessed 6 Jan 2021.