Slender Carpetweed Mollugo gracillima AnderssonWaif  -  Non-native    
Kingdom Plantae   >   Division Tracheophyta   >   Class Magnoliopsida   >   Order Caryophyllales   >   Family Molluginaceae   >   Genus Mollugo   

Status:

Native of Galapagos Islands; also from Uganda (Reed, 1964).

Description:

"This species resembles Green Carpetweed from which it differs by having smaller flowers, a shorter capsule relative to the blunter sepals, and in its minute black tesselated, not ribbed, seeds" (Reed, 1964).

There are 2 records in the project database.

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