Disphyma N.E.Br.

Prostrate, succulent, glabrous perennial. Branches to 1.5 m long, rooting at nodes. Leaves opposite, clustered on erect short shoots, acute or obtuse, triquetrous, somewhat expanded in upper half, smooth, green or glaucous, often with a yellow or red tinge; keel rounded, occasionally acute. Flowers solitary, terminal on short shoots, pedicellate, rarely sessile. Sepals 5, 2 large and opposite, 3 smaller with broad membranous margins. Petal-like staminodes many, purple, white at base; stamens many. Styles 5; ovary inferior; locules 5; placentation parietal. Fruit a hygroscopic capsule; valves winged; expanding keels divergent; locules roofed; placental tubercles bilobed. Seeds many, comma-shaped, laterally compressed, smooth or verrucose, pale to dark brown.