Mollugo cerviana

Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser., Prodr. 1: 392 1824. (Syn: Mollugo umbellata Ser. (Unresolved); Pharnaceum cerviana L.; Pharnaceum umbellatum Forssk.);

Hypertelis cerviana (L.) Thulin (syn: Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser.; Pharnaceum cerviana L.; Pharnaceum glabrum Steud.) as per Catalogue of Life; 

Portugal, Spain, Sardinia (introduced), Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece (incl.
Kiklades), East Aegaean Isl., Rhodos, Romania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Cape
Verde Isl. (Santo Antao Isl., Sao Vicente Isl., Santa Luzia Isl., Ilha de Sao
Nicolau, Sal Isl., Ilha da Boa Vista, Ilha de Maio, Ilha de Sao Tiago, Fogo
Isl.), Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia,
Senegal, Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, E-D.R.Congo (Zaire),
Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Angola, Socotra,
South Africa (Transvaal, Free State, Cape Prov.), Namibia, Botswana, Turkey
(W-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia), Egypt (SE-Egypt), Iran (S-Iran), Saudi Arabia
(C-Saudi Arabia, Hejaz, Asir, Nejd Desert), Yemen (Aden Desert, SW-Yemen,
Tihama), Qatar, Crimea, C- & E-European Russia, Ukraine, Siberia
(W-Siberia), Kazakhstan, Georgia [Caucasus], Myanmar [Burma], Sri Lanka, India,
China (Xinjiang, Hebei), Mongolia, Pakistan (Sind, Karachi, N.W.Frontier Prov.,
Punjab, Swat, Chitral, Hazara), Pakistani Kashmir (Gilgit), Australia (Western
Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, New South Wales),
USA (introduced) (Arizona (introduced), California (introduced), New Mexico
(introduced), Texas (introduced), Utah (introduced)), Hawaii (introduced)
(Hawaii Isl. (introduced)), Galapagos Isl. (introduced), Peru (introduced),
Ecuador (introduced), Venezuela (introduced), Mexico (introduced), Mauritius
(introduced), La Réunion (introduced) as per Catalogue of Life; 

 

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An erect slender annual herb upto 20 cm tall, with slender, cylindrical stems, branches unbellate, the nodes thickened; roots aromatic. Leaves in dense whorls of 4-8 at each node, sessile or subsessile, often glaucous; radical leaves 6-13 mm long, spathulate or linear-spathulate; cauline leaves 0.6-2 cm long and c.1 mm wide, narrow-linear, apiculate, 2-8 in a whorl. Flowers numerous, on stiff filiform pedicels to 1.2 cm long, usually in groups of 3 on long filiform axillary and terminal peduncles; sepals 2.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse with white membranous margins. Fruit (capsule) rounded, equalling the sepals, dehiscing into 3 broadly ovate emarginate valves; seeds numerous smooth, yellowish-brown, without tubercular points. 

Flowering and fruiting: May-October 

Sandy sea coasts and river banks 

(From India Biodiversity Portal 

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Place-Challakarae

Some close up pictures may help, I can only guess a Mollugo sp.

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It may be Mollugo cerviana.

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Supporting …

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Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser. Molluginaceae

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Identification : Attachments (2). 2 posts by 2 authors.

Place-Challakarae, Chitradurga, Karnataka

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References:

Catalogue of Life  The Plant List  GRIN  Flora of Pakistan  Flora of China  India Biodiversity Portal  GBIF  Specimen

https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=33880

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollugo_cerviana

http://tropical.theferns.info/image.php?id=Mollugo+cerviana

http://envis.frlht.org/plantdetails/7132edb4c64f639feb644c6783651c7e/582adac3309b12efac00e6215fcdc489

https://www.calflora.org/cgi-bin/species_query.cgi?where-calrecnum=5608