Common name: Akulikuli
Portulaca pilosa L. APNI* 
Description: Prostrate annual with stems to 25 cm long.
Axillary hairs conspicuous, usually > 5 mm long.
Leaves linear, lanceolate or rarely oblanceolate, 15–25 mm long. Flowers in 1–6-flowered heads. Petals 3–8 mm long, pink. Stamens 15–25.
Capsule to 7 mm long, operculum rounded or dome-shaped, longer than the base; seeds black, testa cells stellate at base and colliculate or tuberculate, the tubercles nippled.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Coastal sandy soils.
NSW subdivisions: *NC, *CC, *NWS, *NWP
Other Australian states: *Qld
Text by J. G. West
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)
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