Glabrous annual or perennial herbs. Leaves entire, fleshy, exstipulate. Flowers in lax terminal cymes. Sepals 5, free. Stamens 12-20, outer ones petaloid staminodes. Ovary 5 locular, 5 lobed; ovules many, on axile place¬tas; styles 5, free. Capsule globose. Seeds many.

A genus of 2 species; tropical Africa and Asia. Represented here by 1 species.

Lower Taxon

• Corbichonia decumbens (Forsk.) Exell

Related Synonym(s):

• Glinus trianthemoides Heyne = Corbichonia decumbens (Forsk.) Exell
• Orygia decumbens Forsk. = Corbichonia decumbens (Forsk.) Exell
• Portulaca decumbens (Forsk.) Vahl = Corbichonia decumbens (Forsk.) Exell