Elatine macropoda Guss., it is an annual amphibious small plant, living on the mud of temporary small pools, created by the limestone’s erosion, Stems, up to 12 cm long, branched, glabrous, often reddish, prostrate, trailing, rooting at the nodes. Leaves opposite, simple, entire, obovate, petiolate, sub glabrous, apex obtuse. Flowers very small, hermaphrodite, actinomorphic, solitary and axillary; sepals 4, oblong-ovate, green, apex obtuse; petals 4, much smaller than sepals, oblong-ovate, white or pinkish, glabrous, apex obtuse; stamens 8, anthers pinkish, filaments white-pinkish, often bending towards the center of the flower; ovary superior, 4-locular, depressed, rounded in outline, green and glabrous; styles 4, stigmas 4, white. Capsule, 1.5 (-2) mm indium, 4-celled, depressed. globular with membranous walls. splitting into 4 parts. Seeds numerous, minute, curved or comma like, 0.7- 0.8 mm long, testa brown and rugose.
Flowering in: Feb-Apr.
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