Sesuvium portulacastrum (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Sesuvium portulacastrum (L.) L.

Family: Aizoaceae

• Samphire, seaside purslane (En)
• Pourpier maritime (Fr)
• Indonesia: gelang pasir, gelang laut (Java), karokot (Madura)
• Malaysia: gelang laut, sepit
• Philippines: dampalit (Tagolog), bilang-bilang (Bisaya), kokobarangka (Tagbanua)
• Cambodia: 'ânluëk preah
• Thailand: phakbia-thale (central), phaengphuai-thale (southern)
• Vietnam: hải châu, phiên hạch.

Pantropical.

The very salty plants can be eaten after repeated boiling in fresh water.

• Creeping, succulent, perennial herb, up to about 80 cm long.
• Stems often reddish and rooting at the nodes.
• Leaves narrow and fleshy, linear-lanceolate, 1-7 cm × 0.6-1.5 cm.
• Flowers with numerous pinkish filaments.

On seashores and in tidal mud.

7, 13, 33, 66, 91.