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Sesuvium portulacastrum
Prostate, much branched herb. ocassionally creeping on the muddy frequently tidal inundated slopes of saline habitats Tap roots are poorly developed, adventitious roots developed from the nodes, fleshy, shiny, spongy , nodes jointed and easily separated, pink, short erect branching, mid zone of the internodes slightly swollen, while node indistinctly grooved. Leaves simple, opposite, thick, fleshy, oblong to lanceolate, entire, acute, angled Inflorescence cyme at axis, ebracteate, complete, bisexual, regular, pedicellate Sepals 5, polysepalous, rosaceous, inferior, imbricate, persistent, elliptic, entire, acute,mid portion thick, terminated into mucronate tip Corolla absent Stamens numerous, free, filament flattened at the base, basifixed, exerted Carpels 2, syncarpous, ovary superior, ovoid, whitsh green, soft, glabrous, 3 chambered, style 3, 0.4 cm long, terminal, soft, whitish, stigma 0 Fruit a capsule, 1 cm long and 1.5 cm diam. with persistent calyx.
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