Portulaca teretifolia subsp. teretifolia

Portulaca poliosperma Urban, Symb. Ant. 4: 232. 1905
IPorlulaca poliosperma minor Urban, Symb. Ant. 4: 233. 1905.
An ascending or spreading, often much-branched herb, with short inconspicuous tufts of hairs in the axils of the leaves; leaves alternate, the blades somewhat flattened, linear, 4.5-15 mm. long, 1-2 mm. broad, obtuse or acutish at the apex, fleshy, the short petioles 1-1.5 mm. long; flowers terminal, in clusters of 2 or more, surrounded with rather short white hairs and an involucre of 6-9 leaves; sepals broadly ovate or ovate-orbicular, 3.5—4 mm. long; corolla purple; petals obovate or oval-obovate, 4-4.5 mm. long, obtuse; stamens numerous; stylelobes 5-7; capsule oval or subglobose, about 3.5-5 mm. high, 3-3.5 mm in diameter, circumscissile at about the middle; seeds gray, 0.7 mm. wide, without spiny tubercules.
Tvpe locality: Dorado. Porto Rico. Distribution: Cuba; Porto Rico; St. Martin.