Murdannia paraguayensis (C.B.Clarke) G.Brückn. A Detail of a flowering shoot, showing the succulent stem, succulent, canaliculate and falcate leaves, and an inflorescence with lilac flowers B Detail of the apex of a flowering shoot, showing a terminal inflorescence with white flowers, and pedicels deflexed post-anthesis C Inflorescence showing the 1-flowered verticillate cincinni and open mauve flowers D Side view of a male flower, showing the sepals with glandular hairs E flooded grassland in Sidrolândia, Mato Grosso do Sul. Photograph A by I.L.M. Resende, B, E by S.N. Moreira and C–D by V.C. Souza.