Sesuvium rubriflorum

Description

The species of the genus Cypselea are one year to perennial herbaceous plants with basically lying, sometimes creeping branches up to 8 centimeters in length. A pile root of up to 4 millimeters in diameter, which has fibrous roots, is formed. The branching is sympodial . The above-ground plant parts are bare. The opposite leaves are stalked. The bare flat blade blades are inverted-egg-shaped to elliptical with smooth leaf edges and those of a pair are different. The two lacinate to slender side leaves of a pair differ significantly in their size, The individual flowers appear at the end, but are surpassed by one of the lateral shoots. There are leaf-like leaves and dry-skinned, frayed cover leaves. The inconspicuous flowers have a diameter of 2 to 3 mm. The four to five perigone leaves are joined to each other at their base, and do not bear any extended appendages at their tips. The two to five stamens are arranged alternitepal. Usually two carpels are a medium-sized, egg-shaped to spherical ovary grown, which during the flowering period is significantly chambered. There are two styluses. The ring-opening capsule fruits contain numerous, approximately 150, more or less kidney-shaped brown seeds . The narrow arillus is retained on the placenta.