valika :

Morphology:

Plants 2.5-3.0 cm long. Roots slender. Leaves 0.8-4.0 cm long, linear lanceolate to spathulate, with raphides on the undersurface. Sepals ovate, c. 1.8 mm long, persistent, margin white. Stamens 5, alternating with the sepals, less than 1 mm long; filaments dilated at the base. Carpel c. 1 mm long; ovary sub-globose, styles 5, free, lateral. Fruit parts with wall more or less fimbriate and with raphides. Seeds c. 1 mm long, minutely punctate, shiny.

It is a diffuse, somewhat succulent herb and belongs to the family Molluginaceae2, 5. Leaves spathulate, subfleshy, subopposite; flowers small many in axillary umbellate cymes; fruits with blackish subreniform seeds.