Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Calandrinia calyptrata
Common name
Pink purslane
Family
Portulacaceae
Where found
Dry forest and open woodland. Coast and ranges south of Cobargo. Sporadic elsewhere.
Notes
Annual or perennial herb to about 0.1 m tall, sprawling or prostrate, stems to 30 cm long. Leaves fleshy, basal, and alternating along the stems or opposite each other, 1-4 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, flattened cylindrical to flat, hairless. Flowers with 5 pink petals each 2-3 mm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, in loose clusters of about 3–10-flowers. Flowers Winter to Spring.
Identification to species level of Calandrinia usually requires microscopic examination of the seeds.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Calandrinia~calyptrata (accessed 6 January, 2021)
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