Trianthema triquetra

Trianthema triquetra Rottler & Willd., Neue Schriften Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin 4: 181 1803. (syn: Trianthema glaucifolia F. Muell.);
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Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of South East India, Volume 3 By T. Pullaiah, K. Sri Ramamurthy (Description & Keys– Trianthema portulacastrum & Trianthema triquetra)
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An annual herb. Roots often long and slender. Stem diffuse, prostrate, papillose. Leaves 0.4-1.2 cm long, 1.5-3.5 mm broad, elliptic-ovate to oblanceolate, leaf base sheathing, membranous. Flowers solitary or 2-3, sessile; bract c. 2 mm long, ovate, acuminate; bracteoles 2, less than 1 mm long. Calyx tube campanulate, persistent; sepals 9 mm long, ovate. Stamens 5, alternating with the sepals, filaments less than 1 mm long. Ovary c. 1.2 mm long, turbinate; style 1, persistent. Pyxidium 2 mm long, lid circular, c. 1.5 mm broad, flat, depressed in the centre; amphora 1-seeded. Seed 1, rugose and black.

Flowering and fruiting: March-April
Wastelands
Africa, Arabia, India, Malesia and Australia
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6 posts by 3 authors.
May I know this marshy prostrate weed found near the coast is a species of Suaeda or some other. It is fleshy, with 5 sepals, petals and stamens; a large disk is +, the ovary is submerged in the disk.
Pls help me in the identification.

Interesting find. Looking at these photographs i remembered seeing a prostrate herb (Sesuvium portulacastrum) with reddish stem and thick, fleshy leaves at Alibag (Maharashtra) near Sea shore.

It is not Sesuvium portulacastrum, see the image attached; I am sure; because i had examined the live specimen, the leaves measure less than 0.6cm, thick and succulent, the flowers are 5 merous, sepals
5, green, united, triangular; petals-5, free, much shorter than sepals, (minute), white, stamens 5, included, large disk pinkish, in which ovary is enclosed, style short, stigma capitate.

It looks like Sesuvium portulacastrum, Aizoaceae

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ANAUG43 Herb for ID : 3 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (2).
ID was suggested on Facebook as an Aizoaceae member.
Please Identify

It may be Trianthema triquetra Rottler & Willd.

Thank you very much sir.

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Trianthema triquetra Rottler & Willd. SN Sep 33 :  2 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (3).
Trianthema triquetra Rottler & Willd. Aizoaceae, small prostrate succulent wild herb from Thirutthani area of Tamilnadu

Thanks a lot … for this post, my plant got identified..

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Please identify – Trianthema sp. or Portulacaceae sp? : Attachments (3).   5 posts by 4 authors.
Please help to identify the semi-succulent prostrate plant collected from the coast of Parangipettai, Tamil Nadu recently. There’re no field data except the images available. Is this obscure plant is Trianthema sp.? or
Portulacaceae sp? please find attached the images for your kind perusal

Atleast me cannot go for Trianthema…nearest I can guess is any Suaeda sp.. but I can be absolutely wrong in both regards..

If style 1…. it could be… Trianthema triquetra

I think it appears close to images at Trianthema triquetra Rottler & Willd.

yes it is Trianthema triquetra

Yes … it is Trianthema triquetra.


SD0111 ID of this succulent: 3 high res. images.
Clicked further west of Jaisalmer along roadside, in Roopsi, in Dec 2022

Trianthema triquetra

Yes, appears close to images at
https://efloraofindia.com/2013/08/03/trianthema-triquetra/

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References:
Flora of Eastern Ghats: Hill Ranges of South East India, Volume 3 By T. Pullaiah, K. Sri Ramamurthy (Description & Keys– Trianthema portulacastrum &  Trianthema triquetra)

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