GLINUS LOTOIDES

Family and Genus:- See- MOLLUGINACEAE

Common Name:- None

Homotypic Synonyms:- None

Meaning:- Glinus Meaning unknown.

Lotoides (L) Resembling Lotus.

General description:- Annual herb, whole plant grey-tomentose with stellate

hairs.

Stems:-

1) 5-20 cm, several prostrate.

Leaves:-

1) Opposite or whorled, short-petiolate, blade broadly elliptic-obovate, obtuse.

Flowers:-

1) Perianth segments, (sepals) 4.5-6 mm, elliptical.

2) Stamens, c. 12. slender, petaloid staminodes present between the sepals and

stamens.

Fruit:-

1) Capsule, equalling the persistent sepals, opening by 5 valves.

2) Seeds, with conspicuous strophiole.

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Habitat:- Alluvial plains and mudflats, sometimes ruderalised, in coastal habitats

and near lakes and streams.

Distribution:- Scattered on mainland Greece and Peloponnisos. Widespread in

tropical and warm-temperate regions of the Old World. Rare on Crete originally

known only from two locations, with a more recent find in 2019 at the Aposelemis

dam by Popi Bormpoudaki

Flowering time:- July-Oct

Photos by:- Fotis Samaritakis