Mollugo cerviana

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Hypertelis cerviana (L.) Thulin (syn: Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser.; Pharnaceum cerviana L.; Pharnaceum glabrum Steud.) 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
Paleotropics 
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Fwd: [efloraofindia:177544] Identification please Identification please 161213 KB8 : Attachments (2). 3 posts by 2 authors.
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Place-Challakarae
Dist-Chitradurga,Karnataka
Habitat-Dry-land
Date of Pic. taken-23.02.2013

Mollugo cerviana – Parpatak herb used in fever

Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser, Fam: Molluginaceae
Sir, you no need to have any doubt on it, it is an unique herb with tiny glaucous leaves and sevaral small flowers

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Id request please. Id no.008 : Attachments (2). 5 posts by 5 authors.
Place-Challakarae
Dist-Chitradurga,Karnataka
Habitat-Dry-land
Date of Pic. taken- 23.02.2013

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

It may be Mollugo cerviana.

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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
Habitat-Dry lands
Date of Pic. taken-23.02.2013
Mollugo cerviana
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Molluginaceae: Hypertelis cerviana (L.) Thulin: 1 image.
synonyms: Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser., Pharnaceum cerviana L.
location/date: Chotannahalli, Tumkur Dist., Karnataka, July 1997