Botanical name: Portulaca linearifolia    Family: Portulacaceae (Purslane family)
Synonyms: Portulaca oleracea var. linearifolia

Narrowleaf Purslane is a prostrate, nearly-erect, or decumbent perennial herb with radiating branches up to 15-20 cm long. Stem is cylindrical, light green, hairless, and fragile, with little or no anthocyanin. Leaves are initially alternate, becoming somewhat opposite, forming branch-ends rosettes or crown; leaf-stalk 2 mm, blade linear, blunt, fleshy, 1.5-2.5 x 0.3-0.5 mm, with entire margins and micro tubercles. Flowers are borne solitary at branch-ends initially, later forming clusters of 2-5 flowers. Flowers are 8-10 mm in diameter. Petals are 5, bright yellow, obovate, 4 x 3 mm, membranous and marcescent. Sepals are 2, unequal, fleshy, keeled, boat-shaped, approximately 3 x 3 mm when spread. Stamens are 10-12, unequal, 3 mm long. Ovary is half superior and half inferior; style 1 mm, stigma 5, 1.5 mm long. Bracts are membranous, triangular, tapering, 1.5 x 1 mm. Fruit is a capsule with a 2 mm lower goblet-shaped part and 4 mm upper conical operculum. Narrowleaf Purslane is found in NW India, Gujarat and Rajasthan.

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