Tetragonia moorei

Prostrate or decumbent annual with branches to c. 50 cm long. Leaves usually narrowly to broadly ovate, elliptic or rhombic, 2–10 cm long, 0.6–5 cm wide, papillose, succulent; petiole 0.6–2 cm long. Flowers solitary, sessile or subsessile; perianth segments 4, unequal, triangular or broadly triangular, 1–2 mm long, green and smooth on inner surface, outer surface densely papillose; stamens 4–8; styles mostly 8–13. Fruit dry or thinly succulent, laterally compressed, broadly ovoid to ellipsoid, 6–14 mm long and wide, variously ribbed, with 2 prominent incurved, claw-like projections and 2–6 smaller projections, or with 4 ± equal projections; seeds mostly 8–13, asymmetrically ovoid, pale brown, c. 2.5 mm long. Flowers mostly Sep.–Nov.