PLANTS: Annual herbs with stellate hairs. STEMS: several from base, prostrate to ascending. LEAVES: alternate to whorled, unequal, petiolate, exstipulate, the margins entire or toothed, the blade spatulate, elliptic or obovate to orbicular, the base cuneate. FLOWERS: several to many, sessile or short-pedicellate; sepals 5, scarious margined, the green midrib extending to the apex; stamens 3-5(-20), fascicled when numerous; pistil 3(-5) -carpellate, the stigmas sessile or subsessile. FRUITS: capsules, in ours slightly shorter than the sepals. SEEDS: numerous, reniform, the funiculus persistent, the aril conspicuous, white, with a filiform appendage coiled around the seed. X = 9. NOTES: 13 spp.; pantropical, and weeds of temperate areas. (Greek: glinos = sweet REFERENCES: Christy, Charlotte M. 1998. Molluginaceae. J. Ariz. – Nev. Acad. Sci. 30(2): 112..