Mollugo nudicaulis Lam., Encycl. 4: 234 1797. (syn. Lampetia nudicaulis (Lam.) Raf.; Pharnaceum bellidifolium Poir. (Unresolved); Pharnaceum spathulatum Sw. (Unresolved));

Paramollugo nudicaulis (Lam.) Thulin (syn: Lampetia nudicaulis (Lam.) Raf.; Mollugo bellidifolia (Poir.) Ser.; Mollugo caespitosa S. Elliot; Mollugo nudicaulis Lam.; Mollugo nudicaulis var. bellidifolia (Poir.) Rohrb.; Mollugo spathulata (Sw.) Kunth; Pharnaceum bellidifolium Poir.; Pharnaceum spathulatum Sw.) as per Catalogue of Life;      

Libya (Tibesti), Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad, Sudan, South Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Gabon, Cameroon, Congo (Brazzaville), D.R.Congo (Zaire), Angola, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa (introduced) (Transvaal (introduced)), Swaziland (introduced), Botswana (introduced), Seychelles (introduced), New Caledonia (introduced), China (Hainan, Guangdong), Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Pakistani Punjab, Swat, Hazara), Pakistani Kashmir (Kotli, Azad Kashmir), Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mauritius, Egypt, Saudi Arabia (Asir), Yemen (Tihama, W-Yemen), Socotra, Cape Verde Isl. (Ilha de Maio, Ilha de Sao Tiago), USA (introduced) (Maryland (introduced)), Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Virgin Isl. (Guana, St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas, Virgin Gorda), Lesser Antilles (Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, St. Martin) as per Catalogue of Life;      

 

 

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Annual acaulescent herbs. Leaves radical, 2.5-4 x 1.3-2 cm, obovate to spathulate, base attenuate, margin entire, apex rounded , glabrous, subsessile. Cymes terminal, corymbose. Pedicel filiform to 4 mm long. Tepals 5, 2-3 mm long, elliptic, hooded, white. Stamens 3-5; filament c.1.5 mm long. Ovary oblong, 3-lobed, 3-celled; stigmas 3, sessile, flat, spreading, papillose. Capsule c. 2 mm long, ellipsoid. Seeds many, oblique-reniform, reddish-black, thickly tuberculate.

Flowering and fruiting: May-September 

(From  India Biodiversity Portal

Mollugo nudicaulis. - indiantreepix | Google Groups : 1 image.

 

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Location: IFGTB Campus, Coimbatore.

Habit: Herb.

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Mollugo nudicaulis.

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Mollugo nudicaulis Lam, small weed from Thiruvallur district of Tamilnadu

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To me it is M. nudicaulis and thus correctly identified. 

matches. agree. nice dpiction of size and details of flowers

Nice image and matching.

i was just perusing some ethnobotany papers and ran into this very interesting use of Molluga nudicaulis by Kani tribals in the eastern parts of the western ghats. they seem to be using it mainly as (in modern interpretation) as anti-inflammatory and seems they make a combination decoction (table 3) with other anti inflammatory plants. not just simple crush and use etc. 

Ethnobotanical survey of medicinal plants commonly used by Kani tribals in Tirunelveli hills of Western Ghats, India - M Ayyanar, S Ignacimuthu Journal of Ethnopharmacology 134 (2011) 851–864  

same authors have more papers if you need more

 

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Nice post. Earlier called Mollugo nudicaulis Lam.!

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