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sweetjuice

Glinus

Glinus is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the family Molluginaceae. Plants of this genus are sometimes called sweetjuice. They are squat annual herbs with fuzzy to hairy green herbage. The fruit is a capsule containing many kidney-shaped seeds. Some species are used as herbal remedies and some are eaten as food.

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Hairy Carpet Weed

speciesGlinus lotoides

Slender Carpet-weed

speciesGlinus oppositifolius

shining damascisa

speciesGlinus radiatus

Glinus orygioides

speciesGlinus orygioides

Glinus bainesii

speciesGlinus bainesii

Glinus runkewitzii

speciesGlinus runkewitzii

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72147.