Common Name

Annual Spinach

Family

Aizoaceae

Notes

Succulent annual forb, erect to prostrate to sprawling.  Leaves to 10cm long, to 50mm wide, flat, hairless. Young shoots hairy.  Flowers yellow-green, with 4 'petals', solitary at the bases of the leaves.  Poorly known Vic.

Differs from Tetragonia tetragonioides and Tetragonia eremaea in that the flowers have 4-8 stamens, and the upward projections on the fruiting body are curved inwards. Differs from Tetrragonia eremaea in that the fruiting bodies are 8-15mm in diameter.

PlantNET description with line drawings:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Tetragonia~moorei