GUSOP
Gowth form
broadleaf
Biological cycle
annual
Habitat
Terrestrial
synonym | Glinus cambessedesii Fenzl |
synonym | Glinus cambessedesii var. nudiusculus Fenzl |
synonym | Glinus cambessedesii var. villosus Fenzl |
synonym | Glinus denticulatus (Guill. & Perr.) Fenzl |
synonym | Glinus mollugo Fenzl |
synonym | Glinus oppositifolius var. parviflorus Hauman |
synonym | Glinus spergula (L.) Steud. |
synonym | Glinus spergula var. rotundifolia (Ewart & A.H.K.Petrie) Ewart & P.H.Jarrett |
synonym | Mollugo spergula L. |
synonym | Pharnaceum spergula (L.) Dillwyn |
Malagasy |
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Global description
Glinus oppositifollus is an annual prostrate herb, diffuse and sub-succulent, highly branched with thin stems, 10 to 40 cm in length. The leaves are simple, short-stalked, opposite or sub-verticilate, narrowly elliptic, ovate-oblong to spatulate-oblanceolate, 10 to 25 mm long and 4 to 12 mm wide. The flowers are small, about 5 mm long, whitish in colour; they are grouped in loose axillary fascicles of 3 to 8 flowers, with pedicel 4 to 10 mm long; perianth consists of 5 free oblong tepals, greenish white, persistent, enveloping the fruit. The fruit is an ellipsoid capsule slightly shorter than the tepals.
General habit
Annual plant, prostrate or spread on the soil, diffuse and sub-succulent, to highly branched stems, 10 to 40 cm in length.
Underground system
Taproot.
Stem
The stems are cylindrical, solid, sub-succulent, decumbent or prostrate, highly branched, reaching 40 cm tall, glabrous sometimes with few appressed hairs in the young branches.
Leaf
The leaves are simple, short-stalked, opposite or sub-verticilate. The lamina is closely elliptical, oval-oblong to obovate-spatulate, spatulate-oblanceolate to lanceolate, 10-25 mm long and 4 to 12 mm wide, base attenuate, acute apex, margin more or less denticulate , glabrescent.
Inflorescence
The flowers are grouped in loose axillary fascicles of 3 to 8 flowers, with pedicel 4 to 10 mm long.
Flower
The flowers are small, whitish. The perianth consists of 5 free oblong tepals, greenish white, 4 to 5 mm long and 2 to 3 mm wide, persistent wrapping the fruit; 4 to 5 and sometimes 10 stamens with anthers oblong alternate having 0-4 bifid staminodes; ovary with 3 (4) loculus and 3 (4) styles.
Fruit
The fruit is an ellipsoid capsule, slightly shorter than persistent tepals, 3 (4) valves containing many seeds.
Seeds
The seeds are sub-reniform, granular, reddish-brown in color.
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Glinus oppositifolius can be confused with Mollugo verticillata L. (Molluginaceae). Here are some characters to differenciate them:
Criteria | Glinus oppositifolius | Mollugo verticillata |
Habit | prostrate plant that does not develop in circular patch | plant spread out in circular spot around the initial rosette. |
Base of the plant | leaves not in roset | leaves in roset |
Ramification | Non dichotomous | dichotomous |
Stem | sub-succulent | non succulent |
Lamina | elliptical, ovate-oblong to obovate-spatulate, spatulate-oblanceolate to lanceolate | spatulate, obovate or linear |
Flower | avec staminodes | sans staminodes |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Glinus%2520oppositifolius
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Magnoliopsida |
Order | Caryophyllales |
Family | Molluginaceae |
Genus | Glinus |
Species | Glinus oppositifolius (L.) Aug.DC. |