Much-branched annual herbs, often forming mats, usually simply or stellately pubescent (rarely ± glabrous)
Leaves alternate or in false whorls, narrowly elliptic to ovate, ± fleshy; stipules 0
Inflorescence a dense, sessile to short-pedunculate, seemingly axillary cyme
Flowers few to many
Sepals 5, free, often yellowish on inner surface, margins hyaline, tip mucronate, persistent
Petals 0-8(-20), usually splitting at apex
Stamens 3-20, alternate with and shorter than sepals, hypogynous; filaments filiform; anthers versatile
Ovary 3-5-locular; ovules many per locule, anacampylotropous; styles 0; stigmas 3(-5), sessile, of hyaline papillae, persistent
Fruit an ovoid, loculicidal capsule
Seeds many, reniform, granular or smooth, with a long filiform aril; cotyledons oblong, fleshy; endosperm starchy
x = 9
Nomenclature:
Glinus L.
Linnaeus: 463 (1753)
Linnaeus: 208 (1754)
Sonder: 136 (1860)
Hutchinson & Dalziel: 114 (1927)
Keay: 135 (1954)
Adamson: 125 (1961)
Jeffrey: 11 (1961)
Pitot: 769 (1965)
Friedrich: 6 (1966)
Bogle: 441 (1970)
Gonçalves: 537 (1978)
Endress & Bittrich: 424 (1993)
Gilbert: 110 (1993)
Eliasson: 6 (1996)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 13, pantropical with 2 species reaching temperate regions as introduced weeds
Southern Africa: Species 3, natural and widespread, Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, Mpumalanga, Free State, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Northern Cape; *Glinus lotoides L. var. lotoides, widespread as a naturalised weed
References:
ADAMSON, R.S. 1961. The South African species of Aizoaceae. IX. Glinus. Journal of South African Botany 27
BOGLE, A.L. 1970. The genera of Molluginaceae and Aizoaceae in the southeastern United States. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 51
ELIASSON, U.H. 1996. Molluginaceae. Flora of Ecuador 55
ENDRESS, M.E. & BITTRICH, V. 1993. Molluginaceae. In K. Kubitzki, J.G. Rohwer & V. Bittrich, The families and genera of vascular plants - dicotyledons 2. Springer-Verlag, Berlin
FRIEDRICH, H.C. 1966. Molluginaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 26
GILBERT, M.G. 1993. Molluginaceae. Flora of Somalia 1
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