Rumicastrum corrigioloides

Rumicastrum corrigioloides (synonym Calandrinia corrigioloides) is an annual herb^[2] in the family Montiaceae, and is native to Western Australia, South Australia, and Victoria.^[3][4][1]

Rumicastrum corrigioloides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Caryophyllales
Family:	Montiaceae
Genus:	Rumicastrum
Species:	R. corrigioloides
Binomial name
Rumicastrum corrigioloides (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Carolin (2020)
Synonyms[1]
Calandrinia corrigioloides F.Muell. ex Benth. (1863) Claytonia corrigioloides (F.Muell. ex Benth.) F.Muell. Parakeelya corrigioloides (F.Muell. ex Benth.) Hershk. (1998 publ. 1999)

Description

It is a succulent, prostrate herb, with pink-white flowers. It flowers from August to November and grows on sandy soils in swampy depressions, flats, and sand dunes.^[2] The stems of the flowers (pedicels) are 0.5–2 mm long and spreading to reflexed in fruit. The bracts are leafy and alternate, the sepals are persistent and the 4 or 5 petals are white to pale-pink. There are 3 to 4 stamens and 3 stigmas 3 which are free to the base. The capsule is three valved and narrow-ovoid to elongate-cylindrical, and the seeds are black, shiny, and smooth and 0.7–1 mm in diameter.^[5]

Taxonomy

The species was first described as Calandrinia corrigioloides by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1863.^[3][6] The genus Calandrinia was discovered to be paraphyletic, and the Australasian species were moved to genus Rumicastrum in 2020.^[1][7]