Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Kakadu National Park, NT

Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Kakadu National Park, NT

Common Name

Slender Carpet-weed

Family

Molluginaceae

Notes

Annual or short lived perennial forb, prostrate. Leaves opposite each other or alternating along the stems, 0.5-3cm long, less than 6mm wide, flat, hairless, tips blunt. Flowers white or tinged pink, with 5 'petals', in clusters of 3-6 at the bases of the leaves. Family Aizoaceae in NSW and SA.

Description (as Glinus oppositifolia) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 293

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Glinus~oppositifolius