Glinus oppositifolius (L.) Aug.DC.

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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