Flower and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index. Photo: Murray Fagg, N of Broken Hill

Fruiting bodies. Photo: Chris Lindorff, Ned's Corner Station Reserve, Lake Cullulleraine, Vic

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index. Photo: Murray Fagg, north of Broken Hill

Plant. Australian Plant Image Index. Photo: Murray Fagg, Broken Hill

Common Name

Small Ice Plant, Slender Ice-plant

Family

Aizoaceae

Notes

Introduced annual or perennial forb, prostrate or sprawling.  Leaves opposite each other, 0.8-2.5cm long, 1-2mm wide, narrow, almost cylindrical, channelled above, bases partly stem clasping, warty, sparsely hairy, falling early.  Flowers with many white 'petals', solitary at the bases of the leaves or at the ends of the stems.

Description and photo in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 294

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