Dwarf Purslane

Portulaca quadrifida L. Mant. 73. 1767
Portulaca micro phylla A. Rich. Ess. Fl. Cuba 620. 1845.
A prostrate, much-branched annual, with slender stems, creeping and rooting at the nodes, hairy in tufts in the axils of the leaves; leaves opposite, the blades flat, elliptic to elliptic-ovate, ovate, or oval, 3-6 mm. long, 1.2-3 mm. broad, acute or obtuse at the apex, rounded or aeutish at the base, short-petioled, fleshy; flowers terminal, solitary or 2, surrounded with long white hairs and an involucre of 4 or 5 leaves; sepals oblong-oval, about 2 mm. long, obtuse, thin; corolla yellow; petals 4, elliptic or oval, obtuse; stamens 8-12; style-lobes 4; capsule circumscissile above the base; seeds grayish or grayish-black, O.S-0.9 mm. wide, spiny-tuberculate.
Type locality: Egypt.
Distribution; West Indies; also in South America and the Old World tropics.